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Gesture And Film

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Author : Liz I. Watkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

Gesture And Film written by Liz I. Watkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Body language in motion pictures categories.

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Gesture And Film

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Author : Nicholas Chare
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-25

Gesture And Film written by Nicholas Chare and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-25 with Social Science categories.

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.

Mapping The Moving Image

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Author : Pasi Väliaho
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2010

Mapping The Moving Image written by Pasi Väliaho and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.

In Mapping the Moving Image, Pasi Valiaho offers a compelling study of how the medium of film came to shape our experience and thinking of the world and ourselves. By locating the moving image in new ways of seeing and saying as manifest in the arts, science and philosophy at the turn of the twentieth century, the book redefines the cinema as one of the most important anthropological processes of modernity. Moving beyond the typical understanding of cinema based on optical and linguistic models, Mapping the Moving Image takes the notion of rhythm as its cue in conceptualizing the medium's morphogenetic potentialities to generate affectivity, behaviour, and logics of sense. It provides a clear picture of how the forms of early film, while mobilizing bodily gestures and demanding intimate, affective engagement from the viewer, emerged in relation to bio-political investments in the body. The book also charts from a fresh perspective how the new gestural dynamics and visuality of the moving image fed into our thinking of time, memory and the unconscious.

Gestures Of Seeing In Film Video And Drawing

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Author : Asbjørn Grønstad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-23

Gestures Of Seeing In Film Video And Drawing written by Asbjørn Grønstad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with Art categories.

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images – as lenses bearing on their own circumstances – are constantly mobilized to enact symbolic forms of warfare and where they get entangled in all kinds of cultural conflicts and controversies, a turn to the gestural life of images seems to promise a particularly pertinent avenue of intellectual inquiry. The complex gestures of the artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In visual art, the gestural appears to be that which intervenes between form and content, materiality and meaning. But as a conceptual force it also impinges upon the very process of seeing itself. As a critical and heuristic trope, the gestural galvanizes many of the most pertinent areas of inquiry in contemporary debates and scholarship in visual culture and related disciplines: ethics (images and their values and affects), aesthetics (from visual essentialism to transesthetics and synesthesia), ecology (iconoclastic gestures and spaces of conflict), and epistemology (questions of the archive, memory and documentation). Offering fresh perspectives on many of these areas, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing will be intensely awaited by readers from and across several disciplines, such as anthropology, linguistics, performance, theater, film and visual studies.

Gesture In French Post New Wave Cinema

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Author : François Giraud
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2023

Gesture In French Post New Wave Cinema written by François Giraud and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Gesture in motion pictures categories.

"Since the invention of cinema in the late nineteenth century, gesture has been a central preoccupation and source of innovations for early film pioneers and avant-garde filmmakers. Gesture is a non-verbal form of expression and communication which enables us to consider, on the one hand, the medium specificity of cinema and, on the other hand, the concept of intermediality, that is, the relations between the moving image and other visual and performing arts. To date, studies on gesture in sound cinema and post-war European modern cinema remains relatively scarce, even though gesture during this period is symptomatic of deep cinematic transformations. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines the aesthetics of gesture in a selection of French post-New Wave films, made on the fringes of film industry, which reveal how cinema can be used as a particularly pertinent instrument to show the impact of sociocultural conditioning on the body, especially in the aftermath of May 1968. Exploring radical manners of filming, performing and editing gestures, post-New Wave filmmakers develop a profusion of cinematic approaches and styles to represent the body as well as the ritualisation of attitudes, postures and gestures"--

Eloquent Gestures

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Author : Roberta E. Pearson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1992

Eloquent Gestures written by Roberta E. Pearson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Performing Arts categories.

"Pearson writes beautifully, clearly, and entertainingly (with a touch of sardonic sarcasm here and there). This is the single best work centering on performance in film that I have read."--Thomas Gunning, author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film

Gesture And Film

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Author : Nicholas Chare
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-30

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 f

Gestures Of Love

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Author : Steven Rybin
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2017-05-24

Gestures Of Love written by Steven Rybin and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-24 with Performing Arts categories.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen. Gestures of Love considers the viewer’s enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin examines several of cinema’s most beloved on-screen movie couples, including Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and William Powell, Carole Lombard and John Barrymore, Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone. Using the classical genres of screwball comedy, film noir, and the family melodrama as touchstones, Rybin places the depiction of romance in films into dialogue with the viewer’s own emotional bond to the actors on the screen. In doing so, he offers rich new analyses of such classic films as Bringing Up Baby, The Thin Man, Twentieth Century, Laura, To Have and Have Not, Tea and Sympathy, Written on the Wind, and more. Steven Rybin is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is the author of Michael Mann: Crime Auteur and Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film; the editor of The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism; and the coeditor, with Will Scheibel, of Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema, also published by SUNY Press.

Gestures

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Author : Vilém Flusser
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01

Gestures written by Vilém Flusser and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Social Science categories.

Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person who makes it. These essays, published here as a collection in English for the first time, were written over roughly a half century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as “a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,” Flusser moves around the topic from diverse points of view, angles, and distances: at times he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement such as taking a photograph, shaving, or listening to music; at others, he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human “making,” embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. But whatever the gesture, Flusser analyzes it as the expression of a particular form of consciousness, that is, as a particular relationship between the world and the one who gestures.

Philosophers On Film From Bergson To Badiou

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Author : Christopher Kul-Want
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15

Philosophers On Film From Bergson To Badiou written by Christopher Kul-Want and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Performing Arts categories.

Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each accompanied by an introduction and exposition by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, that places the philosophers within a historical and intellectual framework of aesthetic and social thought. Encompassing a range of intellectual traditions—Marxism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, gender and affect theories—this critical reader features writings by Bergson, Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer, Merleau-Ponty, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Lyotard, Deleuze, Kristeva, Agamben, Žižek, Nancy, Cavell, Rancière, Badiou, Stiegler, and Silverman. Many of the texts discuss cinema as a mass medium; others develop phenomenological analyses of particular films. Reflecting upon the potential of films to challenge dominant forms of ideology, the anthology considers the ways in which they can disrupt the clichés of capitalist images and offer radical possibilities for creating new worlds of visceral experience outside the grasp of habitual forms of knowledge and subjectivity. Ranging from the early silent period of cinema through the classics of European and Hollywood cinema to the early twenty-first century, the films discussed offer a vivid sense of these philosophers’ concepts and ideas, casting new light on the history of cinema. This reader is an essential and valuable resource for a wide range of courses in film and philosophy.

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