[ecrea] Gesture and Film: Signalling New Critical Perspectives

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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