Book contents
- 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
- 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
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- Hands on FilmActants, Aesthetics, Affects, pp. 261 - 270Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022