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Hands on Film : Actants, Aesthetics, Affects / Barry Monahan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film Culture in TransitionPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789463727716
  • 9789048544769
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436561 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789048544769

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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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 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)