Overhearing film dialogue [electronic resource] / Sarah Kozloff.
Since the birth of cinema, film has been lauded as a visual rather than a verbal medium; this sentiment was epitomized by John Ford's assertion in 1964 that, "When a motion picture is at its best, it is long on action and short on dialogue." Little serious work has been done on the su...
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Functions of Dialogue in Narrative Film; 2. Structural and Stylistic Variables; 3. Integration; 4. Verbal Frontiers: Dialogue in Westerns; 5. Word Play: Dialogue in Screwball Comedies; 6. Words as Weapons: Dialogue in Gangster Films; 7. Misunderstandings: Dialogue in Melodramas; Conclusion; Notes; Select Filmography; Bibliography; Index.