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Gesture and Film
Signalling New Critical Perspectives
Edited by Nicholas Chare and Liz Watkins
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Book Presentation:
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.
About the authors:
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).
See the publisher website: Routledge
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