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Uncanny Cinema
Agonies of the Viewing Experience
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Ideal for cinephiles, film scholars, and readers interested in the theory and philosophy of cinema, particularly those curious about the intersection of visual experience and language. Suitable for an academic or thoughtful general audience.
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An in-depth study of several films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulties of conveying the experience of viewing cinema.
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Murray Pomerance's latest book explores an encyclopaedic 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 analyses to stretch the sense of what we do and do not (or, possibly, cannot) know, particularly as we think, talk, and write about cinema.
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Described as written with intelligence and grace, this book bracingly addresses often overlooked mysteries of spectatorship. It invites readers to engage deeply with the uncanny aspects of cinema, from charismatic characters to emotional layers and sensory experiences. While intellectually ambitious and sobering, it enriches understanding for both cinephiles and scholars, encouraging a refined appreciation of popular films and TV.
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ISBN: 9781501398780
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 November 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 60 bw illus
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 344
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About the Author
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).
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