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2 From the Natural to the Instrumental: Chinese Theories of the Sounding Voice before the Modern Era
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Introduction Introduction
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Stories of A Stories of A
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Stories of O Stories of O
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Stories of I Stories of I
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The History of Visibility The History of Visibility
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Featured Consonants on Film Featured Consonants on Film
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Anagrams and Text Messages Anagrams and Text Messages
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Speech and Law Speech and Law
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Invented Writings Invented Writings
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Perspectives Perspectives
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Notes Notes
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12 Vowels/Consonants: The Legend of a “Gendered” (Sexual) Difference Told by Cinema
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Published:September 2019
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Abstract
This paper, through some examples from films, shows how cinema can dramatize vision of the word as written into the image on screen, if fleetingly at times—a word that is not pronounced but to which the spectator must “give voice” in reading it mentally. The paper also shows how cinema should deal with the question of difference as posed by languages and certain differences in writing systems; how cinema tends to reinforce the old myth about the gendered character of the opposition between consonants (associated with the masculine) and vowels (associated with the feminine); and finally how cinema gives an account of the change in the use and status of writing, thanks to current-day media, as used in some “SMS.” The general idea is to remind us that language, in its visible and/or audible form, plays a key role in the audio-visual, which should be called “audio-logo-visual,” and to analyze how it does so in its cultural and historical reality.
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