Gesture has held a crucial role in cinema since its inception. In the absence of spoken words, early cinema frequently exploited the communicative potential of the gestures of actors. As this book demonstrates, gesture has continued to assume immense importance in film to the present day. This innovative book features essays by leading international scholars working in the fields of cinema, cultural and gender studies, examining modern and contemporary films from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This volume also includes contributions from an esteemed actor, and a world renowned psychologist working in the field of gesture, enabling a pioneering interdisciplinary dialogue around this exciting, emerging field of study. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis and psychology, the essays think through gesture in film from a range of new angles, pointing out both its literal and abstract manifestations. Gesture is analysed in relation to animal/human relations, trauma and testimony, sexual difference, ethics and communitarian politics, through examples from both narrative and documentary cinema. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2017

ISBN

9781317479505

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Media Studies

Index

Social Sciences

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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Citation Information
Notes on Contributors
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 That spectacular supplement: martial arts film as reality
6 The disquiet of the everyday: gesture and Bad Timing
7 Image as gesture: notes on Aernout Mik’s Communitas and the modern political film
8 Monroe’s gestures between trauma and ecstasy, Nymph and Venus: reading the cinematic gesture “Marilyn Monroe” through 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
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