One of the best books this reviewer has encountered in the past few years. Essential. * CHOICE * Movies are about motion, as their name implies. But what does it really mean to see, on a screen, leaves blowing in the wind, or a lateral tracking shot? In this book, Jordan Schonig gives us a revelatory account of the manifold varieties and pleasures of cinematic movement. * Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University * The Shape of Motion offers nothing less than a new and compelling conceptual framework for understanding the various forms of motion that have appeared onscreen throughout film history. Schonig opens up cinematic movement to rigorous theoretical analysis and, in the process, provides insight into our ongoing fascination with, and perceptual delight in, motion itself. * Kristen Whissel, Professor of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley * The Shape of Motion is an imaginative and important bookā¦The Shape of Motion, I have no doubt, will be a fruitful and influential work of film-theoretical scholarship. * Dominic Lash, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *
