Books in French are on www.livres-cinema.info
Hands on Film
Actants, Aesthetics, Affects
(0 vote)Average rating:
| 0 | rating |  = We can do without |
| 0 | rating |  = Good book |
| 0 | rating |  = Excellent book |
| 0 | rating |  = Unique / a reference |
Your rating: -
Book Presentation:
Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth 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 narrative. The book offers insights into how films have created meaning by focusing on that part of the anatomy and, in turn, proposes a variety of ways in which its on-screen appearances might shed light on what it means to be sentient, cultured, and creative beings in the world.
About the Author:
Barry Monahan lectures in the Department of Film & Screen Media at University College Cork. He researches and has published in Irish and other national cinemas from historical, theoretical, and aesthetic perspectives. His monographs include Ireland's Theatre on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen (Irish Academic Press, 2009), and The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: a filmmaking of philosophy, published by Bloomsbury in 2018.
See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press
> On a related topic:
La mise en scène du corps sportif (2003)
Spotlighting the Sporting Body
by Laurent Guido and Gianni Haver
(in French and English)
Subject: General
On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular (2023)
Figurative Invention in Cinema
Subject: Theory
The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism (2022)
Walking in Films
by Asli Özgen
Subject: Sociology
Corporeality in Early Cinema (2018)
Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form
by Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson and Valentine Robert
Subject: Silent Cinema
Back
