Gestures We Live By: The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures 9781501509957, 9781501516757, 9781501526749

Gestures We Live By: The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures 9781501509957, 9781501516757, 9781501526749

This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that f

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Handbook of Gestures: Colombia and the United States 9783110810325, 9789027923004

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Inventing cinema: machines, gestures and media history 9789463724623, 9463724621

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Inventing Cinema: Machines, Gestures and Media History 9789048550463

With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transformi

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Eloquent gestures: the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph films 9780520073654, 9780520911048, 9780520073661

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Body language: how to read others' thoughts by their gestures 0859694062

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Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome 0801861322, 9780801861321

Life in Rome was relentlessly public, and oratory was at its heart. Orations were dramatic spectacles in which the speak

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Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings 0814760759, 9780814760758

Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the intersti

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Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings 9780814762714

Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association Finalist fo

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Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America 9780773576711

Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situ

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