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The Genealogy of Gesture: From Kira Muratova to Renata Litvinova
- Author(s):
- Irina Schulzki (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- Film-Philosophy, Film Studies
- Subject(s):
- Russia, Area studies, Women's studies, Motion pictures--Philosophy
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- gesture, film analysis, metalepsis, Women's cinema, monster theory, Film studies, Russian studies, Mediality, Film theory
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/k7fs-vv90
- Abstract:
- The long-term creative collaboration between Kira Muratova and Renata Litvinova began with the film “Uvlechen’ya” (“Pastimes”, 1994), in which Litvinova took part both as an actress and a screenwriter. Since then, Litvinova has become one of the most striking personifications of Muratova’s ornamental film style, which brings about a specific regime of visibility by foregrounding the eccentric corporeality of non-professional actors, or gesturality as a category of bodily and speech performance. This article focuses on the primary scene of gestural genealogy linking the two directors: thus, the pathologist’s gesture from nurse Lilya’s monologue, written and recited by Litvinova in her inner eccentric manner in Muratova’s film, unfolds in a full-length film narration of “Rita’s Last Fairy Tale” (2012), with a phantasmagorical plot and spectacular visuals characteristic of Litvinova’s directorial style. The article addresses, on the one hand, this gesture, expressing concisely the manifold and bidirectional relation between Muratova’s and Litvinova’s films, and, on the other, discusses possible ways of theoretical conceptions of gesture in text and cinema [...]
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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