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Author:   Barry Monahan
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:  

9789463727716

ISBN 10:   946372771
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   08 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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