Migrations of gesture
by Ness, Sally Ann Noland, Carrie
Derived from the Latin verb?gerere??to carry, act, or do??gesture? has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production. Contributors: Mark Franko, Ketu H. Katrak, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Susan A. Phillips, Deidre Sklar, Lesley Stern, Blake Stimson.
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- Full title :Migrations of gesture / Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, editors.
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Derived from the Latin verb?gerere??to carry, act, or do??gesture? has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production. Contributors: Mark Franko, Ketu H. Katrak, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Susan A. Phillips, Deidre Sklar, Lesley Stern, Blake Stimson.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 296 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780816656516, 0816656517
- oclc:ocn236100851
- LC Classification:PN2071.G4
- Dewey Decimal:792.8
Table of Contents
The inscription of gesture: inward migrations in dance / Sally Ann Ness -- Physical graffiti west : African American gang walks and semiotic practice / Susan A. Phillips -- Gesture and abstraction / Blake Stimson -- Remembering kinesthesia : an inquiry into embodied cultural knowledge / Deidre Sklar -- Digesture : gesture and inscription in experimental cinema / Akira Mizuta Lippit -- Miming signing : Henri Michaux and the writing body / Carrie Noland -- Ghosting : the performance and migration of cinematic gesture, focusing on Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Good men, good women / Lesley Stern -- The gestures of Bharata Natyam : migrating into diasporic contemporary Indian dance / Ketu H. Katrak -- Mimique / Mark Franko.
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