Transgressive Voiceover Narration and Contested Audience Complicity in The Wolf of Wall Street: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse-Reception Analysis
This study examines how a transgressive voice-over narrator sustains charisma while recounting fraud, addiction, sexual excess and legal exposure. Data comprise 199 JORDAN (V.O.) units from The Wolf of Wall Street screenplay and an IMDb reception corpus of 2,063 user reviews. The full review corpus was searched for rec...