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Docalogue Journal

The Docalogue Journal is an online space for scholars, filmmakers, and documentary enthusiasts to engage in conversation about contemporary documentaries. Each month, we feature one documentary and the conversation is initiated by two writers who have been asked to write a few words about that film. Once these initial posts are up, the site is open for comments and discussion from the larger community.

Docalogue Book Series

The Docalogue Book Series continues the project of the journal by soliciting five essays by different scholars about a single documentary, demonstrating five distinct ways of understanding the text.

Media Ventriloquism

Media Ventriloquism: How Audiovisual Technologies Transform the Voice-Body Relationship repurposes the term “ventriloquism” to reflect our complex vocal relationship with media technologies. The past centuries have offered an array of technological means to separate voice from body, practices which have been used for good and ill. Radio, cinema, television, video games, digital technologies, and other media have each fundamentally transformed the relationship between voice and body in myriad and often unexpected ways. This book explores some of these experiences of ventriloquism and considers the political and ethical implications of separating bodies from voices.