An Ironic Overlay: The Use of Voice-Over Narration in The Age of Innocence, by Martin Scorsese

Adaptation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175
Author(s):  
Cynthia Beatrice Costa
Keyword(s):  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Inside Information ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
The Age Of Innocence ◽  
Degree Of Association ◽  
The Voice

Abstract Often praised for its cinematic artistry and faithfulness to the homonymous novel (Edith Wharton, 1920), The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993) is sometimes seen, however, as a reminder of the perils of voice-over narration in fiction films (Herman). By examining its use in relation to notions of novel adaptation (Whelehan; Leitch) and approaching irony in the film as a rhetorical device (Booth; Hutcheon; MacDowell), this article counterpoints the opinion (Travers; Cahir) that the voice-over narration might have decreased the dramatic potency of Scorsese’s work. In doing so, two main hypotheses emerged: (1) displaying a voice that purposefully invokes the novel’s author might have enhanced the degree of association between adaptation and source material, and (2) in deepening the viewers’ understanding of certain scenes by revealing inside information, the voice-over adds an ironic overlay to the film.

Reading with My Mother

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Caryn E. Medved
Keyword(s):  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

I gingerly fold open the browned and stained cover of my mother's 1962 edition of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. The title page rests despondently unattached. Dementia first stole my mother's ability to read and then slowly took her life. I cannot ask her about the annotations she made throughout this text. Still, I can read with my mother through its inscribed pencil-written notes. An object blurring the borders between happiness and suffering, presence and absence. In this essay, I contemplate how the physical object of a book and embedded traces of another's reading evoke emotions, memories, and selves.

Holding onto Moments in The Age of Innocence

Film Studies ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Steven Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Shared Time ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

This article offers an alternative to the predominant and pervasive theoretical approaches to discussing time in film. It adheres to ordinary language, and moves away from a ‘mapping’ of theoretical models or contextual analysis to concentrate on a films specifics. It considers the particular handling of time in a particular film: The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993). Fixing on specific points of style, the article examines the interplay of time and gesture, and the editing techniques of ellipses and dissolves. Both the article and the film hold their attention on the intricacy and intimacy afforded by moments, as they pass. Both explore how the intensity of a lovers relationship over decades is expressed in fleeting passages of shared time. In doing so, the article advances a vocabulary of criticism to match the rhetoric of the film, to appreciate the works handling of time. Detailed consideration of this achievement allows for a greater understanding of the designs and possibilities of time in cinema.

scholarly journals Voices that Matter?

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-137
Author(s):  
Josephine Hoegaerts
Keyword(s):  
Sound Studies ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Methods ◽  
Business Meetings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bodily Practice ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
The Voice

How do we thoroughly historicize the voice, or integrate it into our historical research, and how do we account for the mundane daily practices of voice . . . the constant talking, humming, murmuring, whispering, and mumbling that went on off stage, in living rooms, debating clubs, business meetings, and on the streets? Work across the humanities has provided us with approaches to deal with aspects of voices, vocality, and their sounds. This article considers how we can mobilize and adapt such interdisciplinary methods for the study of history. It charts out a practical approach to attend to the history of voices—including unmusical ones—before recording, drawing on insights from the fields of sound studies, musicology, and performativity. It suggests ways to “listen anew” to familiar sources as well as less conventional source material. And it insists on a combination of analytical approaches focusing on vocabulary, bodily practice, and the questionable particularity of sound.

scholarly journals Relationship between voice function and skeletal effects of rapid maxillary expansion

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fundagül Bilgiç ◽  
İbrahim Damlar ◽  
Özgür Sürmelioğlu ◽  
Özlem Akıncı Sözer ◽  
Ufuk Tatlı
Keyword(s):  
Nasal Cavity ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Rapid Maxillary Expansion ◽  
Maxillary Expansion ◽  
Desktop Computer ◽  
Midpalatal Suture ◽  
Skeletal Effects ◽  
Vocal Quality ◽  
Degree Of Association ◽  
The Voice

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the effects of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) on the vocal quality, maxillary central incisors, midpalatal suture, and nasal cavity in patients with maxillary crossbite. Materials and Methods: Coronal CT scans of 30 subjects (14 boys, 16 girls; mean age, 12.01 ± 0.75) were taken before RME (T0), and at the end of the expansion phase (T1). Voice samples of all patients were recorded with a high-quality condenser microphone (RODE NT2-A) on a desktop computer at T0 and T1. Statistical analyses were performed using a paired-sample t-test. The degree of association between the changes in the voice parameters and nasal width was assessed with Pearson's correlation. Results: RME treatment produced a significant increase in the transverse dimensions of the midpalatal suture and nasal cavity between T0 and T1 (P < .05). The maximum F0 and jitter (%) results were shown to decrease statistically significantly from T0 to T1 (P < .001 and P = .042, respectively). Between T0 and T1, shimmer (%) and shimmer (dB) exhibited statistically significant increases (P = .037 and P = .019, respectively). Conclusions: After RME therapy, voice quality differences were found to be associated with increases in nasal width.

scholarly journals Dialogue in the Arts: Interaction of Languages of Painting and Cinema

2015 ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Maria V. Tarasova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

Explores the object­language laws in visual arts and the interrelation of art signs that are employed in painting and cinematography. The author addresses the “Age of Innocence” by Martin Scorsese and analyses the cinema art speech as determined by the object­language of the painting styles, namely the impressionism, pointillism, Art Nouveau, etc. The artistic culture is described as a dialogue space where languages of various types of arts reveal their origin from a single source and make their capacity of general understanding messages produced in culture obvious.

scholarly journals "WICKED OLD SOCIETIES": A PRESENÇA FRANCESA EM THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, DE EDITH WHARTON

Organon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (65) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Rodrigo De Oliveira Lemos
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
Edith Wharton ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

The Age of Innocence (1920), de Edith Wharton, volta-se com ironia ao estranhamento entre o mundo anglo-saxônico e a França durante o século XIX. Para tanto, o romance se concentra na alta-sociedade nova-iorquina durante a Gilded Age (circa 1870- 1900). Nessa história de um amor frustrado entre o rico e refinado Newland Archer e a americana Ellen Olenska, de volta aos Estados Unidos após abandonar seu marido na Europa, oferece-se um contraste entre a vitalidade artístico-literária do continente europeu, sobretudo de Paris, e a morosidade da vida intelectual na América de então. Igualmente, exploram-se os modos distintos de sociabilidade entre americanos e europeus, principalmente no que toca à convivência entre os sexos. Essas observações, além de comporem o pano de fundo da história, pesam no próprio desenrolar das relações entre os dois protagonistas e na maneira como ambos se encontram e se perdem.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Edith Wharton; The Age of Innocence; Cultura francesa.

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