Race and the re-embodied voice in Hollywood film

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Abstract

As linguistic anthropologists and others have argued, the development of modern sound technologies led to the disembodiment of the voice; the resulting ideologies of voice, however, concerned embodiment rather than disembodiment. By contrast, in late-modern media regimes, essentialized voices have been recontextualized and linguistically re-embodied via crossing and stylization. This article demonstrates that the re-embodiment of voice reasserted naturalized boundaries of gender and race in Hollywood 'wigger' films from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. The ideological effects of such representations both locally and more widely point to the importance of examining mediatized practices and products through a linguistic-anthropological lens. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

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Bucholtz, M. (2011). Race and the re-embodied voice in Hollywood film. Language and Communication, 31(3), 255–265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2011.02.004

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