Gesture and Film (eBook, PDF)

Signalling New Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: Chare, Nicholas; Watkins, Liz

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative interdisciplinary collection exploring gesture and film features essays by leading international scholars working in the fields of cinema, cultural studies, ethics, gender studies, theatre and psychology. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis and psychology, the groundbreaking volume theorises abstract and literal film gestures from a variety of new and exciting perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317479512
• Artikelnr.: 54251296

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, Canada. His most recent books are Sportswomen in Cinema (2015), After Francis Bacon (2012), and Matters of Testimony (with Dominic Williams, 2016). Liz Watkins is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests include the significance of colour for film theories of subjectivity, perception, and sexual difference. She has published on feminism, film/philosophy, the materiality of film, and archive in parallax, Paragraph, British Journal of Cinema and Television, and NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies. She is co-editor, with Simon Brown and Sarah Street, of Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive (2013) and British Colour Cinema: Practices and Theories (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gesture in Film 1. Cinematic Gesture: The Ghost in the Machine 2. Speech-Gesture Mimicry in Performance: An Actor
Audience, Author
Actor, Audience
Actor Triangle 3. Films, Gestures, Species 4. Gesture in Shoah 5. Martial Gestures 6. The Disquiet of the Everyday: Gesture and Bad Timing 7. Image as Gesture: Notes on Aemout Mik's Communitas and the Modern Political Film 8. Between Trauma and Ecstasy: Reading the Cinematic Gesture of Marilyn Monroe with Aby Warburg 9. The Time of Gesture in Cinema and its Ethics 10. The exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two epidermises: Gestures of touch in Gattaca (1997), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and The Piano (1993) 11. A Mark on the Canvas