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  • Alfred Hitchcock's America

    by Murray Pomerance ...
    Series series America Through the Lens
    With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue

    Eight Reflections on Cinema

    by Murray Pomerance ...
    Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema’s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s—L’avventura, La Notte, L‘eclisse—are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni’s greatest works. Writing in an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • An Eye for Hitchcock

    by Murray Pomerance ...
    A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, are extraordinarily famous and have been seen––and misunderstood ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Tropic of Cinema

    Into a Grammar and Out Again

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    Tropic of Cinema is a collection of 50 meditations on “the cinema experience,” and the viewer's experience with its grammar and grammatical modulations, understood at once in aesthetic, philosophical, historical, political, and other registers.This book is an inspired reflection on cinematic tropes and tropics on codes, rules, and their variations. It draws on the American transcendental tradition ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • A Silence from Hitchcock

    by Murray Pomerance ...
    Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.In A Silence from Hitchcock, Murray Pomerance explores the resonating power of silence in the director's work-its variation, its haunting temptation, and its technical power. Working from a meditative devotion to and an illuminating familiarity with the director's work, Pomerance shines light upon six films, some of them (Notorious, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Voyage with Hitchcock

    by Murray Pomerance ...
    Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho**,** The 39 Steps**,** The Birds**,** Dial M for Murder**,** Rich and Strange**, and** Suspicion**.**Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchc... ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Dream of Hitchcock

    by Murray Pomerance ...
    Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.A Dream of Hitchcock examines the recurring motif of the dream in Hitchcock's work-dreamscapes, dream processes, the dream effect-by focusing on close readings of six celebrated but often misinterpreted films: Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Saboteur, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, and Family Plot. The Hitchcockian dream, as invoked here, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Moment of Action

    Riddles of Cinematic Performance

    by Murray Pomerance ...
    There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor’s performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer?Moment of Action delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cinema, If You Please

    The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory

    by Murray Pomerance ...

    $26.99 USD

  • The Biggest Thing in Show Business

    Living It Up with Martin & Lewis

    by Murray Pomerance, Matthew Solomon ...
    A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo's phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business looks askance at postwar ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most intruiging and successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Through a close reading of the film alongside analysis of its complex production history, Pomerance's analysis highlights its darkest nuances, and its themes of musicality, gendered power, and cultural strangeness. He ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Light Thoughts

    Image, Reverie, Memory

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    Light Thoughts is about the interaction of thought between the spectator and the film in cinema; not just a matter of describing the play of a film as a thought process, but rather of formulating ideas about this interaction through detailed analysis of what is actually seen and heard in the cinema.The chapters include explorations of: gaffes in performance, harmonized activity, and so-called ... Read more

    $105.99 USD