Media Ventriloquism

Jaimie Baron is an associate professor of film studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020), and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is the director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a festival of short experimental found footage films and videos, and co-editor of the Docalogue website and book series.Jennifer Fleeger is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus College where she coordinates the program in Film Studies. She has written about the voice in two books for Oxford University Press, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz and Mismatched Women: The Siren's Song through the Machine.Shannon Wong Lerner is an affiliate at HATCH: the Mellon-funded Feminist Arts & Science Shop at UC Davis. She has written about breath, gender/sexuation, queerness, and voice in the chapter, "All of My Work is Performance: Irigarayan Methods of Breath for Dance and Voice" in Breathing with Luce Irigaray (2013). She has written and debuted a queer Asian Pacific Islander I play I Feel Bad That You Felt Bad/You Felt Bad That I Feel Bad, and an intersectional feminist operetta, No One Hurts You More Than S/Mother. She is the creator of Queer Home Meditation, an online community of LGBTQIA+ practitioners, host of the podcast The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse, and co-hosts eFEMeral: Voice Matters. She regularly contributes her writing to open-source platforms such as Medium.

• Introduction: Theorizing Media VentriloquismJaimie Baron, Jennifer Fleeger, and Shannon Wong Lerner Section I: Speaking in Another Voice Introduction: Reactivating the Vocal UncannyJaimie Baron Chapter 1: Echoes down the years: technologies of mediumship and immortalityAlicia Puglionesi Chapter 2: Broadcasting the Diva of Dubbing: Marni Nixon, Local Television, and the Puppetry of ParentingJennifer Fleeger Chapter 3: Queer from the Horse's Mouth: Francis the Talking Mule and Mr. Ed as Midcentury Man WhisperersMaria Pramaggiore Section II: Singing in Another Voice Introduction: Singing the Body TechnovocalicJaimie Baron Chapter 4: "Mike Fright": Racial Ventriloquism in the Hollywood TalkiesRyan Jay Friedman Chapter 5: The Black Queer/Trans Femme Representation of Beyoncé's Media Ventriloquisms and the National Voice Shannon Wong Lerner Chapter 6: Identity Politics and Vocal "Whitewashing" in Celebrity Lip Syncs Jennifer O'Meara Section III: Animating the Voice Introduction: Breathing in Mediated SpacesShannon Wong Lerner Chapter 7: The Mills Brothers, Animators of the Unseen StageJacob Smith Chapter 8: Performing Fragility: Re-sounding the Gendered Hero in the Voice of Lara CroftMilena Droumeva Chapter 9: Double-Ventriloquism and Aegyo in OverwatchWilliam Dunkel and Aaron Trammell Section IV: Politicizing the Voice Introduction: Of Technovocalic Presidents and PrecedentsShannon Wong Lerner Chapter 10: Ventriloquizing Obama, or, the Ethics of Archival VentriloquismJaimie Baron Chapter 11: "You're the puppet": Presidential Ventriloquism, Vocal Technologies, and the Politics of VoiceSarah Kessler Epilogue Introduction: Media Ventriloquism in the Distant PresentJennifer Fleeger Epilogue: The Ventriloquism of Media: Communication as Delegation and Tele-actionFrançois Cooren, Lise Higham, and Boris H. J. M. Brummans