[PDF.19fc] Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

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 | #1920394 in Books |  2001-01-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x1.40 x9.10l,1.80 | File type: PDF | 472 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The Art Of An Otherwise Silent Voice|By Russo Lewis|Fearful attitudes toward ventriloquism may be fascinating as well as frightening. Ventriloquism as metaphor for certain cultural absurdities, demonstrates both comedic and frightening aspects that have been attributed to the unhoused voice. Dumbstruck is a masterful distillation of such organised phenomenon. In modern entertai| |`How the world of mediumistic displays, of possession and exorcism, of glossolalia and witchcraft, led us to Victorian parlour entertainments and then to Toy Story is the absorbing substance of this book.'
Economist, December 2000

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Ventriloquism, the art of "seeming to speak where one is not", speaks so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition. We now think nothing of hearing voices--our own and others'--propelled over intercoms, cellphones, and answering machines. Yet, why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? And why does the magician's trick of speaking through a dummy entertain as w...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism   |  Steven Connor.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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