They do the same kind of acting onstage as off — the sort of modern naturalism, without eccentricity of gesture, excess of expression, or heightened and formalistic precision, that is the business-casual of contemporary cinema.
The ability of these actors to disturb us with a gesture, a change of expression or a simple stare only serves to make us like them more.
"After eight years of mangled and manipulated language, and the palpable effects of that in the real world, it seems like any gesture toward clarity of expression and dignity of life is welcome," Christian Wiman, the editor of Poetry magazine, said in an e-mail message.
While these inescapably misogynistic films mostly feature women being killed in cruel and bizarre ways, men are murdered too: In A Thousand Pleasures, Richard is smothered by the breasts of Boobarella definitely more of a fetishistic gesture than an expression of retribution for killing his wife.
The camera no longer catches a gesture, or a play of expression, on the wing; someone has to create a program for it and patch it into place.
This seemingly miraculous confluence of expression, gesture, lighting and composition is what makes so much of Cartier-Bresson's work exceptional, especially since most of it happened on the fly, in the real world and not in the studio.
It's quiet when he's pitching, with little to note beyond the flow of strikeouts or pop-ups or ground balls, delivered without gesture or a change of expression, and the click of another passing inning is like someone closing a door in the next room.
His Les Caves du Vatican (1914; The Vatican Cellars) caught the fancy of intellectuals with an anarchist bent, partly because of its celebration of the acte gratuit, undertaken not for gain or self-interest but as a gesture of authentic self-expression, but also because of its outrageously funny satire on humanity's submission to authoritarian systems of belief.
Rose Tremain taught creative writing at the University of East Anglia and is its former chancellor Think about how people reveal themselves through behaviour, and focus on the externals of gesture, expression, dialogue and settings.
He presented the emaciated body of his St. Jerome (unfinished; begun 1480) in a sobering light, imbuing it with a realism that stemmed from his keen knowledge of anatomy; Leonardo's mastery of gesture and facial expression gave his Jerome an unrivalled expression of transfigured sorrow.
Stimuli consist of 1.5-second greyscale video clips (38 frames at 25 frames per second) showing the agent face and upper body starting from a neutral pose and depicting one of the following gestures: expression of Joy, of Anger, of Disgust and silent Speech.
