Author: Maria Pramaggiore File Type: pdf Vocal Projections Voices in Documentary examines a previously neglected topic in the field of documentary studies the political, aesthetic, and affective functions that voices assume. On topics ranging from the celebrity voice over to ventriloquism, from rockumentary screams to feminist vocal politics, these essays demonstrate myriad ways in which voices make documentary meaning beyond their expository, evidentiary and authenticating functions. The international range of contributors offers an innovative approach to the issues relating to voices in documentary. While taking account of the existing paradigm in documentary studies pioneered by Bill Nichols, in which voice is equated with political rhetoric and subjective representation, the contributors move into new territory, addressing current and emerging research in voice, sound, music and posthumanist studies. **Review A timely introduction to brave new waves of thinking about the documentary tongues and tones that tune our listening. Jonathan Kahana, author of Intelligence Work The Politics of American Documentary (2008) and editor of The Documentary Film Reader History, Theory, Criticism (2016) The plurality of voices contributing to this extraordinary and much needed volume is nothing short of inspiring. Extending and in many cases upending Bill Nichols association between voice and rhetoric, the essays in this book propose entirely new paradigms through which to think about the qualities and implications of the voice-linguistic and non-linguistic, human and otherwise-in documentary. The range of issues raised and perspectives developed here on the subject of the voice in documentary will echo for years to come. Alisa Lebow, Reader in Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK At a moment when documentary forms abound, not only in cinema, but television, contemporary art, and social media, Vocal Projections offers an important and much needed reflection on the voice in documentary. Against the authoritative, voice-of-God narration and logocentrism of conventional documentary-where the voice is merely the vehicle for meaning and information-the wide-ranging essays in this collection consider its sonic, textural, and often prelinguistic manifestations across media and national contexts. The many voices examined here are anything but straightforward they slip and sound, often destabilizing the images to which they are attached. Throughout, the contributors maintain a keen ear for vocal resonances in places where they have not been typically heard. Genevieve Yue, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, The New School, USA About the Author Maria Pramaggiore is Head of Media Studies at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. She has published four books, two on Irish cinema, and one a co-authored textbook, Film A Critical Introduction (2011 with Tom Wallis), now in its third edition. Bella Honess Roe is a lecturer at the University of Surrey, UK, where she is the programme director for Film Studies. Her scholarship and teaching focuses on animation, documentary and popular culture more broadly. She is the author of Animated Documentary (2013). Her work on animation, documentary, genre and British cinema appears in publications such as The Journal of British Cinema and Television and Animation An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Author: Brett Calcott File Type: pdf In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary published theirinfluential book The Major Transitions in Evolution. The transitions that MaynardSmith and Szathmary chose to describe all constituted major changes in the kinds oforganisms that existed but, most important, these events also transformed theevolutionary process itself. The evolution of new levels of biological organization,such as chromosomes, cells, multicelled organisms, and complex social groupsradically changed the kinds of individuals natural selection could act upon. Many ofthese events also produced revolutionary changes in the process of inheritance, byexpanding the range and fidelity of transmission, establishing new inheritancechannels, and developing more open-ended sources of variation.Maynard Smith andSzathmary had planned a major revision of their work, but the death of Maynard Smithin 2004 prevented this. In this volume, prominent scholars (including Szathmaryhimself) reconsider and extend the earlier books themes in light of recentdevelopments in evolutionary biology. The contributors discuss different frameworksfor understanding macroevolution, prokaryote evolution (the study of which has beenaided by developments in molecular biology), and the complex evolution ofmulticellularity.ReviewCalcott and Sterelny deserve our thanks for bringing together a renowned group of philosophers and evolutionary biologists to revisit a recent classic with a fair yet critical tone that also treats readers to a glimpse of the cutting edge. This collection is a must read for anyone interested in the promise of theoretical unification in evolutionary biology. -- The Quarterly Review of BiologyAbout the AuthorBrett Calcott is a postdoctoral researcher at Australian National University and coeditor (with Kim Sterelny) of The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (MIT Press, 2011). Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt second edition, MIT Press).