Format:
xi, 249 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780190093884
,
9780190093891
Content:
Verlagsinfo: "Cinematic motion has long been celebrated as an emblem of change and fluidity or claimed as the source of cinema's impression of reality. But such general claims undermine the sheer variety of forms that motion can take onscreen-the sweep of a gesture, the rush of a camera movement, the slow transformations of a natural landscape. What might we learn about the moving image when we begin to account for the many ways that movements move? In The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement, 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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190093914
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Schonig, Jordan Shape of motion New York : Oxford University Press, 2021
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Schonig, Jordan The shape of motion New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780190093921
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190093914
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Bewegung
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Filmästhetik
URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-shape-of-motion-9780190093891
