By Carrie Noland,Sally Ann Ness
ISBN-10: 0816648646
ISBN-13: 9780816648641
ISBN-10: 0816648654
ISBN-13: 9780816648658
Derived from the Latin verb “gerere”-to hold, act, or do-“gesture” has gathered severe foreign money yet has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and offers a fancy thought at the worth of gesture for figuring out human signal production.
Gestures migrate from physique to physique, from one medium to a different, and among cultural contexts. Juxtaposing specified methods to gesture which will discover the ways that they straight away form and are encouraged by way of tradition, the participants research the works of writers Henri Michaux and Stéphane Mallarmé, photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Martin Arnold, besides cultural practices resembling gang strolling, ballet, and classical Indian dance. The authors stream deftly among an natural, out of the ordinary appreciation of human expression and a historicist, semiotic figuring out of the way the “human” is itself created via gestural routines.
Contributors: Mark Franko, U of California, Santa Cruz; Ketu H. Katrak, U of California, Irvine; Akira Mizuta Lippit, U of Southern California; Susan A. Phillips, Pitzer collage; Deidre Sklar; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Blake Stimson, U of California, Davis.
Carrie Noland is affiliate professor of French literature and significant idea on the college of California, Irvine.
Sally Ann Ness is professor of anthropology at college of California, Riverside.
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