The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement by Jordan Schonig (review)

Abstract

The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement , a first book by is a unique and engaging foray into some of cinema’s forms. By studying six different forms of motion, the presents a method for critically engaging with the in Signifi-cantly, we could call an alternative phenomenology of cinematographic movement, a way to examine an of cinema so fundamental that it rarely sustained theoretical attention.” of prioritizes trac-ing links between recognizable regardless of their for the most part, their within narrative