Technological reproduction at odds: Hand and cinematography in Robert Wiene’s The Hands of Orlac
Around 1900, the paradigm of technological reproducibility threatened to replace the hand. As a matter of fact, though, hands speak the language of cinematic media specificity quite fluently. With its fine motor manipulations, the hand offers an intimate image of essentially human traits and showca...
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| Language: | English |
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Milano University Press
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Cinéma & Cie |
| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/cinemaetcie/article/view/16537 |