Hands on film : actants, aesthetics, affects

Hands on film : actants, aesthetics, affects / Barry Monahan.

Hands on Film' is a comprehensive study of the representations and uses of that human limb from the birth of cinema to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from stylistic to thematic, and for the development of characterisation and narrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monahan, Barry (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Series:Film culture in transition.
Subjects:
Hand.
Human body in motion pictures.
Films, cinema.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
ART / Film & Video.
Hand
Human body in motion pictures
Media studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Images
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Themes
  • The Framed Hand and Being
  • 2. Symbolism
  • The Semiotic Hand
  • 3. Aesthetics
  • The Stylised Hand: Beauty, Ugliness, Genre
  • 4. Narration
  • Hands Doing and Being
  • 5. Characterisation
  • Hands and Identity
  • Concluding Case Study
  • Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975)
  • Filmography
  • Index

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