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  | | Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue(First Edition) Eight Reflections on Cinema by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-26686-5, ISBN: 0-520-26686-2 "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, Leclisse"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 accessible style that evokes Antonioni s expan ..." |
 | | City That Never Sleeps New York and the Filmic Imagination by Murray Pomerance, Professor William Rothman, Professor Joe Mcelhaney, Aaron Baker, Professor David Gerstner, Professor Randy Thom, Professor Elizabeth Weis, Professor Scott Bukatman, Professor Pamela Grace, Professor David Desser, William Luhr, Peter Lehman, David Sterritt, Reviewer David Sterritt, Paula J. Massood, Professor Steven Alan Carr, Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Barry Keith Grant, Nicole Solano, Rutgers University Press Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4032-0, ISBN: 0-8135-4032-1 "New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fear-some darkness. The glittering skyscrapers of such films as ""On the Town"" have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out - ..." |
 | | Cinema and Modernity(33rd Edition) by Murray Pomerance, Patrice Petro, Walter Metz, Christopher Sharrrett, Krin Gabbard, Tom Conley, Tom Gunning, Lucy Fischer, Peter Lehman, Professor Steven Alan Carr, Professor Joe Mcelhaney, Professor William Rothman, Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Reviewer David Sterritt, Joe Mcelhaney, David Sterritt, William Rothman, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3816-7, ISBN: 0-8135-3816-5 ""I can think of no topic more central to film studies than 'Cinema and Modernity.' Facet after facet of both terms gleams when rotated in the intermittent light of this fascinating anthology." --Dudley Andrew, professor of film studies and comparative literature, Yale University "This book amply confirms cinema's continuing vitality in the modern world. . . . I can't imagine a film scholar who would not find something of value in this ..." |
 | | Cinema, If You Please(1st Edition) The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory by Murray Pomerance Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-2868-2, ISBN: 1-4744-2868-1 "In Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Wedding the notion of pleasure in film viewing to the history of pleasure in the West, the book considers pleasure gardens and promenading; the history of oil painting and its display; the passion for travel and exposure to the exotic and strange; and f ..." |
 | | The Eyes Have It Cinema and the Reality Effect (Techniques of the Moving Image) by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6058-8, ISBN: 0-8135-6058-6 ""The Eyes Have It" explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences including T"he Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, "and "Signs" Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 193 ..." |
 | | Virtuoso Film Performance and the Actor's Magic by Professor Murray Pomerance Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-5067-2, ISBN: 1-5013-5067-6 "Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes these performances so special? Eloquently written and engagingly laid out, Murray Pomerance answers the tough question as to what makes an exceptional, or virtuosic performance. Pomerance intensively explores virtuosic performance in film, ..." |
 | | Johnny Depp Starts Here by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3566-1, ISBN: 0-8135-3566-2 ""Pomerance is the inimitable lyric poet of cinema scholars, bringing the imagination of a creative artist and the rigor of an exacting intellect to these masterly riffs on Depp’s complexities and conundrums. The protean actor could not have found a commentator more in tune with his mercurial career and elusive, mesmerizing self."—David Sterritt, author of Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the ’50s, and Film"Johnny Depp Starts Here offers an i ..." |
 | | American Cinema of the 1950s Themes And Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema (Paperback)) by Professor Murray Pomerance, Murray Pomerance, Professor Arthur Knight, Kristen Grant, Jon Lewis, Mary Beth Haralovich, Associate Professor Sumiko Higashi, Associate Professor Michael Deangelis, Barry Keith Grant, Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Professor Steven Alan Carr, Sumiko Higashi, Michael Deangelis, Professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3673-6, ISBN: 0-8135-3673-1 "From cold war hysteria and rampant anticommunist witch hunts to the lure of suburbia, television, and the new consumerism, the 1950s was a decade of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Amid this amalgamation of social, political, and cultural conditions, Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department, which pressed for big film companies to divest themselves of their theate ..." |
 | | Grammatical Dreams (Paperback) by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2020 by Green Integer ISBN-13: 978-1-933382-34-0, ISBN: 1-933382-34-1 "Grammatical Dreams presents a series of luxuriant, linguistic, dream-like tales that might almost remind one of Scheherazade's One Thousand and One Nights ." |
 | | Alfred Hitchcock's America(1st Edition) (PALS-Polity America Through the Lens series) by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5303-7, ISBN: 0-7456-5303-0 "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 critically commented upon in Hitchcock' ..." |
 | | Popping Culture(7th Edition) by Murray Pomerance, John Sakeris Paperback, 406 Pages, Published 2012 by Pearson Learning Solutions ISBN-13: 978-1-256-84016-9, ISBN: 1-256-84016-5 "Long popular with students who have used it, Popping Culture presents a compilation of articles dealing with current issues in popular culture, including media violence, sexuality, social inequality, racism, and war. Some of the leading theorists in cultural studies today, including Stuart Ewen, Mark Crispin Miller, William Hoynes, Henry Giroux and Christopher Sharrett among others, take on these subjects with a critical perspective aim ..." |
 | | Shining in Shadows Movie Stars of the 2000s (Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema) by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2011 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5148-7, ISBN: 0-8135-5148-X "In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen.Shining in Shadows examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film industry and for America itself. Perhaps reflecting our own cultural fragmentation and uncertainty, Hollywood's star personas sent mixed messag ..." |
 | | Popping Culture(6th Edition) by Murray Pomerance, John Sakeris, Jennifer Brayton, Peter Clandfield, Associate Professor Michael Deangelis, Professor Thomas Doherty, Professor Murray Pomerance Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2010 by Pearson Learning Solutions ISBN-13: 978-0-558-79668-6, ISBN: 0-558-79668-0 "Long popular with students who have used it, Popping Culture presents a compilation of articles dealing with current issues in popular culture, including media violence, sexuality, social inequality, racism, and war. Some of the leading theorists in cultural studies today, including Stuart Ewen, Mark Crispin Miller, William Hoynes, and Henry Giroux among others, take on these subjects with a critical perspective aimed at “popping” the c ..." |
 | | Bad(Updated) Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen (The Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video) by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2003 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-5940-9, ISBN: 0-7914-5940-3 "Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema’s earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen representations of negativity in all its forms―evil, monstrosity, corruption, ugliness, villainy, and darkness. Bad examines the long line of thiev ..." |
 | | Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice(Updated) Cinemas of Girlhood (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series) by Murray Pomerance, Professor Frances Gateward, Bell Hooks, Allison Whitney, Christine Milliken, Gayle Wald, Corinn Columpar, Kimberley Roberts, Lori Liggett, Linda Dittmar, Steven Woodward, Chuck Kleinhans, Frances Gateward, Frances K. Gateward, Kristen Hatch, Timothy Shary, Cynthia Fuchs, Professor Chuck Kleinhans, Ann De Vaney, Professor Cynthia Fuchs, Professor Ina Rae Hark, Professor Timothy Shary, Mary Celeste Kearney, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Professor Kristen Hatch Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2002 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2918-4, ISBN: 0-8143-2918-7 "From the Wizard of Oz to Lolita, from the Heathers to the Spice Girls, images of girlhood have been projected on the silver screen in myriad ways. Whether a girl is taught that "there is no place like home" or is seeking adventure on her own terms, whether she is a seductress or a nerd, a babysitter or a murderer, films have depicted society's problematic expectations of girls together with the dreams, anxieties, and tensions experience ..." |
 | | Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls(Updated) Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century (The Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video) by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2001 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-4886-1, ISBN: 0-7914-4886-X "Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls examines the bizarre and fascinating range of gender portrayals in film at the end of the twentieth century. In order to view the screened face of gender in bold new ways, the contributors cover a wide variety of cinematic forms and styles--from the boy-girls of Hong K ..." |
 | | Marnie (BFI Film Classics) by Professor Murray Pomerance Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-654-8, ISBN: 1-84457-654-X |
 | | The Horse Who Drank the Sky Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory by Murray Pomerance Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2008 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4328-4, ISBN: 0-8135-4328-2 "What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches, and riddles the viewer through an image that transcends narrative and theory. In "The Horse Who Drank the Sky", Murray Pomerance brings attention to the visceral dimension of movies and presents a new and unanticipated way of thinking about ..." |
 | | Thinking in the Dark Cinema, Theory, Practice by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy Blatter, Steven Woodward, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Nathan Holmes, Will Scheibel, Daniel Morgan, Alex Clayton, Dominic Lennard, Steven Rybin, Jonah Corne, Tom Gunning, Dudley Andrew, Professor Matthew Solomon, Professor Gilberto Perez, Professor William Rothman, Professor Tom Conley, Professor Kristen Hatch, Professor William Brown Md, Johannes Von Moltke, Matthew Solomon, William Brown, Tom Conley, Gilberto Perez, Kristen Hatch, William Rothman Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6628-3, ISBN: 0-8135-6628-2 "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 Andre 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 made a great impact on film scholarship ..." |
 | | Popping Culture(4th Edition) by Murray Pomerance, John Sakeris Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2009 by Pearson Learning Solutions ISBN-13: 978-0-536-21105-7, ISBN: 0-536-21105-1 "Long popular with students who have used it, Popping Culture presents a compilation of articles dealing with current issues in popular culture, including media violence, sexuality, social inequality, racism, and war. Some of the leading theorists in cultural studies today, including Stuart Ewen, Mark Crispin Miller, William Hoynes, and Henry Giroux among others, take on these subjects with a critical perspective aimed at “popping” the c ..." |
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