dc.contributor.author | Harbord, J | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-06T10:21:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-02 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2019-12-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2213-0217 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61847 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores the co-constitution of autism in the twentieth century with a normative concept of gesture and body language. As an archive of bodies in movement, cinema provides a database of gestures, their changing modality, and cultural distinctiveness across the course of a century. A lesser known cinema of medical and psychiatric film testifies to a longstanding fascination with the a-typical gesture as an optic for observation, documentation, and diagnosis. An identification of idiosyncratic motor co-ordination in the early twentieth century coincided with the rise of neurology, obtaining a different focus in the postwar period in an enquiry into autistic presence. Produced as an outside, autistic gesture, provides an external limit-case of what can be known about the development of the human subject. | en_US |
dc.language | English | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Amsterdam University Press | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies | en_US |
dc.subject | autism, body language, medical film, psychiatry, gesture | en_US |
dc.title | The Autistic Gesture: Film as Neurological Training | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
pubs.notes | Not known | en_US |
pubs.publication-status | Accepted | en_US |
pubs.volume | Autumn | en_US |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-12-02 | en_US |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en_US |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en_US |
qmul.funder | Autism through Cinema: body language and the illegible body::Wellcome Trust | en_US |