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‘Pure gesturality’: Exploring cinematic encounters through exotic dancing

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dc.creatorDalla Gassa, Marco
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-27T15:52:39Z
dc.date.available2020-01-27T15:52:39Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIs there a proximity between the theory of gesture, as originally conceived in the early cinema era, and the cinematic representations of travel? What kind of bond connects the idea of moving images as a universal language and the globalisation processes which increasingly unfold throughout the twentieth century? How does a body that dances before the eyes of a ‘foreigner’ establish hierarchies of the gaze and simultaneously exceed them? This essay seeks to answer these questions through the analysis of three different films: Jean Renoir’s THE RIVER, Fritz Lang’s THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR, and Louis Malle’s PHANTOM INDIA, in which these European filmmakers represent exotic ‘Indian’ dances. In particular, this essay dwells on the multiple and ambiguous entailments that the dancing body establishes through its gesture within the relationship between the camera, characters, and audiences, in a context where the encounter of cultures speaking different languages occurs. Finally, through the theoretical arguments of Simmel, Focillon, and Lyotard, this preverbal relationship is defined as ‘pure gesturality’ and as a – yet unexpressed and maybe even inexpressible – promise of meaning.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13143
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/pure-gesturality-exploring-cinematic-encounters-through-exotic-dancing/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14064
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0225
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectdanceen
dc.subjectDifférenden
dc.subjectexoticismen
dc.subjectfilm theoryen
dc.subjectgestureen
dc.subjectTanzde
dc.subjectExotismusde
dc.subjectFilmtheoriede
dc.subjectGestede
dc.subjectGestikde
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personJean-François Lyotard
dc.subject.personJean Renoir
dc.subject.personLouis Malle
dc.subject.personFritz Lang
dc.subject.workTHE RIVER
dc.subject.workL’INDE FANTÔME
dc.subject.workPHANTOM INDIA
dc.subject.workDER TIGER VON ESCHNAPUR
dc.title‘Pure gesturality’: Exploring cinematic encounters through exotic dancingen
dc.typearticle
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationMarco Dalla Gassa: ‘Pure gesturality’: Exploring cinematic encounters through exotic dancing. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 8 (2019) Nr. 2, S. 149–168. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13143.
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