ESSAY ON GESTUALITY IN CINEMA. GESTURES BETWEEN EXAGGERATION AND ABSENCE
ESSAY ON GESTUALITY IN CINEMA. GESTURES BETWEEN EXAGGERATION AND ABSENCE

Summary/Abstract: The history of film reveals an evolution, almost normatively, of actors' gestures, from exaggeration to absence. The exaggeration is associated with the dawns of the cinema, when the actors should add, with the help of the gestures, the rudimentary technology - but also to the production series B, the porn film or the television for the masses. As technology has advanced, gestures in the cinema have lost their denotative function and have become closer to the usual gestures, therefore, closer to human nature. Because of the technological progress, the gestures have arrived at the point where their presence, diminished to the minimum, makes it possible to form a compound mixture in the color, the granulation, the focal length of the lenses, the movement of the camera, the light, the sound, mounting etc.). The mixing of these elements has thus returned the syncretic role of the film.

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