Banca de DEFESA: DANIEL MAGALHAES DE ANDRADE LIMA

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STUDENT : DANIEL MAGALHAES DE ANDRADE LIMA
DATE: 14/03/2023
TIME: 15:30
LOCAL: MINIAUDITÓRIO DO PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM COMUNICAÇÃO
TITLE:

The Gestural Life of Voices: lip-syncing and performance in audiovisual culture

KEY WORDS:

Audiovisual Culture; Body; Performance; Voice; Gesture; Queer Theory.

PAGES: 266
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

Ever since image and sound technologies were developed, the possibility of assembling different voices and gestures has been used in many ways. Dubbing and lip- syncing – apparatuses that operate through playback – cross various audiovisual products. Such apparatuses, after all, have been operated in cinema since the beginning of talkies, as well as in music videos, everyday performances on social media platforms, and in some traditions of live performance. Recognizing that the mediatic assemblages of voices and gestures summon bodily problems, this thesis inquires: what procedures are operationalized in the construction of audio-visible bodies? How does the interaction with voices act on the production of bodies in audiovisual cultures? What
dubbing and lip-syncing can reveal about bodily production through the employment of playback technologies? Following such questions, this thesis aims to discuss normative notions of “body” and “subject” that are inscribed in the varied performative arrangements of audiovisual technologies, crossing perspectives on race, gender, and other markers. In this process, different audiovisual productions are summoned to conduct the investigation by intersecting theoretical traditions that cross cinema, music, and theater, among others. Therefore, being part of Performance Studies in Communication, this research unravels the role of mediatic technologies in audiovisual performances, emphasizing the communicational flows that cross audiovisual products and everyday life through practices of spectatorship and listening. Moreover, this thesis particularly dedicates itself to the study of voice, undertaking an extensive review of theories about mediatic voices. Debates on voice are still little explored in Communication Studies. Therefore, this research aims to contribute to the field by also proposing approaches to vocality that resonate with contemporary understandings of bodies and performance theory. Finally, this thesis emphasizes that the study of dubbing and lip-syncing is crucial to the understanding of contemporary phenomena. The reason for this is that bodily productions of movie musicals, music video performances, drag queens' lip-sync performances, and vernacular videos on digital platforms, among other dubbed/lip-synced practices, bring together body techniques and mediatic technologies that mutually inform each other. In this sense, this thesis postulates dubbing/lip-syncing as an epicenter to which audiovisual technologies converge in such a way that, by investigating such arrangements of playback technologies, we can unravel specific issues of body production that inform ourselves bodily and subjectively.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 1134091 - ANGELA FREIRE PRYSTHON
Externa à Instituição - Christine Greiner
Externa à Instituição - GABRIELA MACHADO RAMOS DE ALMEIDA
Interno - 1121252 - JEDER SILVEIRA JANOTTI JUNIOR
Presidente - 2322090 - THIAGO SOARES