Overview :Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master... Read More
Overview :The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city ... Read More
Overview :This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer's placement at the edge of the screen. Every page... Read More
Overview :Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred ... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, as film and television producers develop ever... Read More
Overview :There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelibl... Read More
Overview :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 w... Read More
Overview :Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been del... Read More
Overview :Today's film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives--they're just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as t... Read More
Overview :Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces--The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some lesser ... Read More
Overview :This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, a... Read More
Overview :From cold war hysteria and rampant anticommunist witch hunts to the lure of suburbia, television, and the new consumerism, the 1950s was a d... Read More
Overview :Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the RMIT Univ... Read More
Overview :Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls examines the bizarre and fascinating range of gender portrayals in film at the end of the twentieth cen... Read More
Overview :What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical... Read More
Overview :Murray Pomerance's latest book explores an encyclopedic range of films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulty of conveying the e... Read More