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  • 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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  • 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

    $105.29 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

    $35.09 USD

  • Edge of the Screen

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    This bookis a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer's placement at the edge of the screen. Every page is an opportunity to think about an aspect of film, or of film viewing, in new ways, and to begin reconsidering deeply ingrained ways of unthinkingly characterizing and accounting for what it is that we watch when we watch a film, what happens to us, and how ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Matthew Solomon, David Desser, Neil Badmington, Matthew H. Bernstein, Steven Rybin, Mark Osteen, Lawrence Napper0, Adrian Danks1, Rebecca Bell-Metereau2, Brenda Austin-Smith3, Dominic Lennard4, Daniel Varndell5, Matthew Cipa6, Tom Conley7, Ms. Linda Badley8, Professor Kristen Hatch9 ...
    Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio ... Read more

    $28.79 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

    $33.29 USD

  • 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

    $35.09 USD

  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...
    Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Uncanny Cinema

    Agonies of the Viewing Experience

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    Murray Pomerance's latest book explores an encyclopedic range of films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulty of conveying the experience of viewing cinema through words and the medium of text. From On the Waterfront to Marriage Story, Uncanny Cinema illuminates that words and writing are in perilous waters when applied to cinema, similar to ungestured talk. The book begins with this ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Color It True

    Impressions of Cinema

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor or symbol, or else part of a broader signifying system. Murray Pomerance's latest meditation on cinema has the author embed himself in various ... Read more

    $33.19 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

    $35.09 USD

  • The Film Cheat

    Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, performance, and structuring maneuvers intended to foster the impression of a screen reality that does not exist as presented. This usually calls for a suspension of disbelief in the viewer, but that rests on the assumption that disbelief is problematic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD