Conclusion
This conclusion examines a methodological similarity between the book’s attention to small details of movement and the discourse of “cinephilic moments,” which describes a mode of spectatorship that fixates on brief fragments of movement on screen. While cinephilic moments are often understood as resistant to formal analysis due to their apparent contingency, this conclusion shows how each chapter of The Shape of Motion has demonstrated a method of locating formal significance in cinephilic moments through the close analysis of motion. Rather than simply dwelling on the apparent uniqueness of those individual moments, each chapter collects and groups those singular moments according to the forms of movement they take, thereby yielding new theories of cinematic experience in addition to new insights about individual films.