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  • 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

  • Cinema, If You Please

    The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory

    by Murray Pomerance ...

    $27.29 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

    $31.49 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

  • 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

    $33.29 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $22.29 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

  • Marnie

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock's reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form.Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many tortuous and thrilling passages of Marnie, weaving critical discussion together with production history to reveal Marnie as a woman in flight from her self, her past, her love, and the eyes of surveilling ... Read more

    $13.69 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

  • Virtuoso

    Film Performance and the Actor's Magic

    by Professor Murray Pomerance ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.19 USD