Movies move. It’s their defining feature, differentiating motion pictures from still photographs. Even the word cinema comes from this concept: it’s rooted in the Greek kinema, or movement.If movement is central to the medium, then why does film studies rarely analyze movement? It’s a question that puzzles Cinema Department lecturer Jordan Schonig, and which he addresses in his new book, The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement.
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