cinegético

Cinegético is a rarely used term in film studies and philosophy of cinema that refers to the kinesthetic or perceptual aspects of the film experience. The word blends cine-, from cinema, with -gético, a productive adjectival suffix used to form terms about a field or domain. In practice, cinegético is used to discuss how cinema provokes bodily movement or the sense of motion in spectators, whether through editing rhythms, shot scale, camera movement, or sound design, and how these elements engage the viewer's kinesthetic imagination. The concept is closely related to phenomenology of film and theories of embodied spectatorship, but its usage is not standardized; different authors may attribute slightly different emphases—ranging from the physiological response to the cognitive sense of movement.

In analysis, cinegético may appear when describing how a sequence compels the viewer to feel speed or sluggishness, how micro-movements implied by editing create a sense of motion, or how the body is mobilized by narrative tempo. It is distinct from, but overlaps with, kinesthetics and the study of movement in cinema (kinematics) and from purely visual or narrative analyses.

Because cinegético is not widely documented in standard glossaries, it is primarily encountered in specialized scholarly works, often within Spanish-language film theory or discussions of embodied cognition in cinema. It should be used with clear definition in any given text to avoid ambiguity.