Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

by Steven Connor

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198184336
• ISBN13: 9780198184331
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"