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Human beings in art --- Body, Human, in motion pictures --- Art, Spanish --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures - Spain.

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Body, Human, in literature --- Body, Human, in motion pictures --- Human figure in art --- Body, Human in the performing arts --- History --- Arts, Modern --- Cyborg. --- Kunst. --- Kunstmatig leven. --- Literatuur. --- Menselijk lichaam. --- Arts, Modern. --- Human body in literature. --- Human body in motion pictures. --- Human figure in art. --- Künste. --- Künstlicher Mensch. --- Literatur. --- 1800-1999. --- Body, Human, in literature - History - 19th century --- Body, Human, in literature - History - 20th century --- Body, Human, in motion pictures - History - 19th century --- Body, Human, in motion pictures - History - 20th century --- Human figure in art - History - 19th century --- Human figure in art - History - 20th century --- Body, Human in the performing arts - History - 19th century --- Body, Human in the performing arts - History - 20th century

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After General Francisco Franco died in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Many film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under Franco's dictatorship, introducing characters who transgressed the traditional borders of social, cultural, and sexual identities. The women, homosexuals, transsexuals, and delinquents who were considered lost, dissonant bodies under Franco's rule became the new protagonists of Spanish cinema. "Here is a 'book of passion' on the metamorphoses of post-Francoist Spain as it catapulted into the contemporary world (1975-95). It is a book that questions the power of myths expressed through passionate bodies, in particular bodies who for too long were marginalized in traditional societies." -Michèle Lagny, Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III

Film --- Spain --- Motion pictures --- Women in motion pictures. --- Homosexuality in motion pictures. --- Cinéma --- Femmes au cinéma --- Homosexualité au cinéma --- History --- Histoire --- Human body in motion pictures. --- History. --- Body, Human, in motion pictures

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Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane's Mishap, Jane on Strike, and The Consequences of Feminism, comediennes exhibit the tensions between joyful laughter and gendered violence. Slapstick comedy often celebrates the exaggeration of make-believe injury. Unlike male clowns, however, these comic actresses use slapstick antics as forms of feminist protest. They spontaneously combust while doing housework, disappear and reappear when sexually assaulted, or transform into men by eating magic seeds-and their absurd metamorphoses evoke the real-life predicaments of female identity in a changing modern world.Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes reveals the gender politics of comedy and the comedic potentials of feminism through close consideration of hundreds of silent films. As Maggie Hennefeld argues, comedienne catastrophes provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. At the same time, slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language. Women's flexible physicality offered filmmakers blank slates for experimenting with the visual and social potentials of cinema. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes poses major challenges to the foundations of our ideas about slapstick comedy and film history, showing how this combustible genre blows open age-old debates about laughter, society, and gender politics.

Comedy films --- Silent films --- Women comedians. --- Women in motion pictures. --- Human body in motion pictures. --- Sex role in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Body, Human, in motion pictures --- Comediennes --- Actresses --- Comedians --- History and criticism. --- Silent films. --- History and criticism

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Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and uses of that human limb from the birth of cinema to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from stylistic to thematic, and for the development of characterisation and narrative. The book offers insights into how films have created meaning by focusing on that part of the anatomy and, in turn, proposes a variety of ways in which its on-screen appearances might shed light on what it means to be sentient, cultured, and creative beings in the world.

Hand. --- Human body in motion pictures. --- ART / Film & Video. --- Body, Human, in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Hands --- Paw --- Paws --- Arm --- Left- and right-handedness --- Film, Hands, Ontology, Aesthetics, Theory.