Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition) ›› 2022, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 32-40.

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A Voice That Is Not Mine: Terror and the Mythology of the Technological Voice

  

  • Online:2022-11-15 Published:2022-11-16

Abstract: Taking Films by Roberto Rossellini, Fritz Lang and others as examples, the paper mainly discusses the mythology and ideology derived from the technology-mediated voices in the first half the 20th century. Technological products such as wireless and radio detached voices from their sources, not only creating temporal and spatial environments never seen before, but also breaking the borders between human subjects and objects. This disembodied technological voice  thus became a sharp weapon manipulating human heart and human body in the fascist media theories.  

Key words: film voice, wireless, radio; , fascist aesthetics