The feminist agenda in poltergeist : subverting synchronized dialogue.

• Main Author: Lee, Hsien Jun.
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48844
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Classical Hollywood cinema has always been about creating the impression of realism, thereby enforcing the inseparable linkage between the visual body and its voice (which has to contain dialogue). Moreover, classical Hollywood cinema’s phallocentric nature means that it privileges the phallus as th...