Introduction.- Chapter 1: A Concept of Filmic Gesture.- 1.1 Evolutionary migration: Gestures of the body.- 1.2 Gesture and Play: The Aesthetic of the Living.- 1.3 Gesturing Towards the Future: Vilém Flusser.- 1.4 Nénette: A Case in Point.- 1.5 Two Other Takes on Gestures and Film.- Chapter 2: The Gesturing Body of Film.- 2.1 Vivian Sobchack's Body of Film.- 2.2 Christiane Voss' Surrogate Body.- 2.3 Raymond Bellour's Le Corps du Cinéma.- 2.4 Recapitulation: The Gesturing Body of Film.- Chapter 3: Gestures in the Film, Gestures of the Film.- 3.1 In and of the Film: Gesture and Diegesis.- 3.2 Animal Gestures in Film: Barbara Creed.- 3.3 Gestures of the Film: Bernhard Siegert.- 3.4 Those that, at a distance, resemble another (Jessica S. Rinland, 2019).- Conclusion.- Bibliography.
