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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Monahan, Barry,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048544769; 9783110767094; 9783110767001; 9783110992809; 9783110992816; 9783110993899; 9783110994810
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048544769?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 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.