Cinema's Motion Forms: Film Theory, the Digital Turn, and the Possibilities of Cinematic Movement

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Cinema's Motion Forms: Film Theory, the Digital Turn, and the Possibilities of Cinematic Movement is written by Jordan Schonig and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0355519445 (ISBN 10) and 9780355519440 (ISBN 13).

This dissertation reworks a set of central debates in film theory by analyzing the aesthetics of cinematic motion. Providing a corrective to classical film theory's preoccupation with the materiality of photography and more recent debates over the ontological separation of analog and digital media, I locate the uniqueness of cinematic experience in the aesthetic possibilities of cinema's inscription of motion. Through the phenomenological analysis of Gestalt structures and patterns of movement unique to the moving image--what I call cinema's motion forms--I demonstrate the various ways that cinematic motion is distinct from natural motion perception. By analyzing several of cinema's motion forms shared across analog and digital cinemas, and revealing their logics of experience, I provide a fresh look on a set of problems of film theory.