Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Film Culture in Transition
Actants, Aesthetics, Affects
Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Film Culture in Transition
ISBN: 978-94-6372-771-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Images
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Themes – The Framed Hand and Being
Natural and Supernatural Phenomena: Matter Becoming Consciousness
The Nature and Origin of Creativity
Determinism and Free Will: Possession, Self-possession, Dispossession
Modernism: Industrialisation and Technology
Gendered Hands
2. Symbolism – The Semiotic Hand
The Meaningful Hand and Metonymy
The Manual as Metaphorical
Between Metaphor and Metonym: The Hand and Memory
3. Aesthetics – The Stylised Hand: Beauty, Ugliness, Genre
Behind the Scenes: Unseen Creative Hands
The Stylised Hand on Screen
The Camp Hand and the Hand in Camp
The Haptic Experience: Screened Sensations
4. Narration – Hands Doing and Being
Hands as Narrative Actants
Slow Hands and Slow Cinema
Acting Hands and Set Pieces
5. Characterisation – Hands and Identity
Cultural Contexts for Creative and Destructive Personalities
The Psychopathic Hand
Vocational Hands
Characters and Labour
Manual Details: Emotions and Eccentricities
Concealing and Revealing Characters
Concluding Case Study – Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975)
Filmography
Index