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Product details
- ISBN 9781501398742
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 problem using Julian Jaynes’s thoughts on vocality and imagination before delving into three exploratory ‘movements’ arranged to alternately challenge, inspire, and confound the reader to question if we know what we think we know or even see what we think we see. The viewer is faced with disturbances, ruptures, and surprises that occur during the viewing experience, which Pomerance analyzes to stretch the sense of what we do and do not (or, possibly, cannot) know, particularly as we think, talk, and write about cinema.
Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Canada and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. He is the author of many books, including A Silence from Hitchcock (2023), Color It True: Impressions of Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2022), A Voyage with Hitchcock (2021), Grammatical Dreams (2020), The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (Bloomsbury, 2020), Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic (Bloomsbury, 2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), and Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory (2018).
