Hands on Film
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-771-6 (ISBN)
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.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Film Culture in Transition |
Zusatzinfo | 18 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Amsterdam |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
ISBN-10 | 94-6372-771-X / 946372771X |
ISBN-13 | 978-94-6372-771-6 / 9789463727716 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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