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[ecrea] Gesture and Film: Signalling New Critical Perspectives

Tue Jun 06 13:10:08 GMT 2017




Gesture and Film: Signalling New Critical Perspectives (Routledge 2017) <https://www.routledge.com/Gesture-and-Film-Signalling-New-Critical-Perspectives/Chare-Watkins/p/book/9781138900196> eds. Nicholas Chare and Liz Watkins**

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.

*Table of Contents*
Introduction: Gesture in Film Nicholas Chare and Liz Watkins.
1. Cinematic Gesture: The Ghost in the Machine Laura Mulvey.
2. Speech-Gesture Mimicry in Performance: An Actor →Audience, Author →Actor, Audience →Actor Triangle David McNeill.
3. Films, Gestures, Species Barbara Creed.
4. Gesture in Shoah Nicholas Chare.
5. Martial Gestures Paul Bowman.
6. The Disquiet of the Everyday: Gesture and Bad Timing Liz Watkins.
7. Image as Gesture: Notes on Aemout Mik’s Communitas and the Modern Political Film Patricia Pisters. 8. Between Trauma and Ecstasy: Reading the Cinematic Gesture of Marilyn Monroe with Aby Warburg Griselda Pollock.
9. The Time of Gesture in Cinema and its Ethics Elizabeth Cowie.
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) Naomi Segal.
11. A Mark on the Canvas Carol Mayo Jenkins.

Dr Elizabeth Watkins, University of Leeds
(e.i.watkins /at/ leeds.ac.uk) <mailto:(e.i.watkins /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>
Gesture and Film: Signalling New Critical  Perspectives (Routledge 2017).
‘Don’t Look Now: Transience and Text’, Screen (2015), vol.56, no.4: 436-449.
Screening Embodiment - special issue- Paragraph, (2015) vol.38, issue 1.
Color and the Moving Image (Routledge 2013).
Spaces of Imagination: Intermediality in Film Archives and Exhibition https://spacesofimagination.wordpress.com

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