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Beschreibung
In The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement, author Jordan Schonig provides a new way of theorizing cinematic motion by examining cinema's "motion forms" structures, patterns, or shapes of movement unique to the moving image. From the wild and unpredictable motion of flickering leaves and swirling dust that captivated early spectators, to the pulsing abstractions that emerge from rapid lateral tracking shots, to the bleeding pixel-formations caused by the glitches of digital video compression, each motion form opens up the aesthetics of movement to film theoretical inquiry. By pairing close analyses of onscreen movement in narrative and experimental films with concepts from Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Henri Bergson, and Immanuel Kant, Schonig rethinks longstanding assumptions within film studies, such as indexical accounts of photographic images and analogies between the camera and the human eye. Arguing against the intuition that cinema reproduces our natural perception of motion, The Shape of Motion shows how cinema's motion forms do not merely transpose the movements of the world in front of the camera, they transform them.
In The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement, author Jordan Schonig provides a new way of theorizing cinematic motion by examining cinema's "motion forms" structures, patterns, or shapes of movement unique to the moving image. From the wild and unpredictable motion of flickering leaves and swirling dust that captivated early spectators, to the pulsing abstractions that emerge from rapid lateral tracking shots, to the bleeding pixel-formations caused by the glitches of digital video compression, each motion form opens up the aesthetics of movement to film theoretical inquiry. By pairing close analyses of onscreen movement in narrative and experimental films with concepts from Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Henri Bergson, and Immanuel Kant, Schonig rethinks longstanding assumptions within film studies, such as indexical accounts of photographic images and analogies between the camera and the human eye. Arguing against the intuition that cinema reproduces our natural perception of motion, The Shape of Motion shows how cinema's motion forms do not merely transpose the movements of the world in front of the camera, they transform them.
Über den Autor
Jordan Schonig is a Lecturer in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • Introduction Moving toward Form

  • The Problem of "Movement"

  • Perceiving Form

  • Imaged Motion

  • Describing Motion

  • Chapter 1 Contingent Motion

  • Kant's Beautiful Views

  • Early Cinema's Water-Effects Films

  • CGI's Fuzzy Objects

  • From the Novelty of Motion to Forms of Motion

  • Chapter 2 Habitual Gestures

  • Ways of Moving

  • Ways of Moving Differently

  • The Cultivation of Habit

  • Capturing the In-Between

  • Chapter 3 Durational Metamorphosis

  • Cinematic Slowness and Duration

  • Duration Made Visible

  • From Natural to Supernatural Metamorphosis: Silent Light

  • From Sleeping to Seeing

  • Chapter 4 Spatial Unfurling

  • From Moving to Unfurling

  • Lateral Camera Movement

  • Seeing Double

  • Aspects of the Moving Camera

  • Chapter 5 Trajective Locomotion

  • Approaching Trajectivity

  • A World of Trajectivities

  • Exploring Exceptions

  • The Ethics of the Moving Camera

  • Chapter 6 Bleeding Pixels

  • Movement-Sensitive Spectatorship

  • A Pedagogy of Motion Perception

  • Seeing Movement Move

  • Conclusion Movement as Excess

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190093891
ISBN-10: 0190093897
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schonig, Jordan
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Jordan Schonig
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2022
Gewicht: 0,406 kg
Artikel-ID: 132414635