Focus on the gesture of watching the palm of the hand: is it a sort of archaeological prefiguration of the cinematic dispositif? How can we interpret the modern re-birth of palmistry, with its anxiety of reproducing the surface of the hand as a landscape, as a sort of canvas on which stories and lives run, ore better as a screen? Can we think of it as a way of imagining cinema into the human body, producing a gesture that contains the special affectivity connected with the medium, and therefore deserves to be linked to other manual practices which anticipate, more evidently, cinema, such as Shadowgraphy?

(2018). Gestures of Hands and Cinema Archaeology . Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/120223

Gestures of Hands and Cinema Archaeology

Grespi, Barbara
2018-02-01

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Focus on the gesture of watching the palm of the hand: is it a sort of archaeological prefiguration of the cinematic dispositif? How can we interpret the modern re-birth of palmistry, with its anxiety of reproducing the surface of the hand as a landscape, as a sort of canvas on which stories and lives run, ore better as a screen? Can we think of it as a way of imagining cinema into the human body, producing a gesture that contains the special affectivity connected with the medium, and therefore deserves to be linked to other manual practices which anticipate, more evidently, cinema, such as Shadowgraphy?
feb-2018
Grespi, Barbara
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