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Book: The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema

Chapter: Find Your Voice: Narratives of Women’s Voice Loss in American Cinema

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.35460

Blurb:

This chapter explores the gendered implications of voice loss. It traces a rhetorical history of voice as agency, and of the manifestations of that equation in American cinema, where the transformation of voices—especially women’s— are clearly seen and heard.

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