Description: O'Meara highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components, and demonstrates how indie dialogue can instead hinge on an idea of cinematic verbalism.
Brief description: Dr Jennifer O'Meara is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of Women's Voices in Digital Media (2022, University of Texas Press) and Engaging Dialogue (2018, EUP).
Review Quotes: What a delight to see the study of filmic dialogue pushed forward by O'Meara! Incorporating the latest research and clear analysis, her engaging insights are applicable to a wider field than the six writer-directors she foregrounds.'--Professor Sarah Kozloff, author of Overhearing Film Dialogue