{"product_id":"edge-of-the-screen-by-professor-murray-pomerance-9798765128329","title":"Edge of the Screen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is a series of seventeen meditations that revolve around the notion of the viewer’s placement at the edge of the screen.\u003c\/strong\u003e Every page is an opportunity to think about an aspect of film, or of film viewing, in new ways, and to begin reconsidering deeply ingrained ways of unthinkingly characterising and accounting for what it is that we watch when we watch a film, what happens to us, and how we make sense of and appreciate it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume follows from three others by the author: \u003cem\u003eVirtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic\u003c\/em\u003e (2020); \u003cem\u003eThe Film Cheat: Cinematic Artifice and Viewing Pleasure\u003c\/em\u003e (2021); and \u003cem\u003eUncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience\u003c\/em\u003e (2022). All of these, including \u003cem\u003eEdge of the Screen\u003c\/em\u003e, meander and interrogate cinema as we watch it, both connecting us to and disconnecting us from the moment of pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach meditation is characterised by a deep penetration of the inquiring, continually hungry authorial mind and a very extensive set of analyses of filmic moments from myriad films, including \u003cem\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMemento\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZabriskie Point\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAn American in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePlanet of the Apes\u003c\/em\u003e (1968), \u003cem\u003eSuperman\u003c\/em\u003e (1978), \u003cem\u003ePossessed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Jungle Book\u003c\/em\u003e (1942), \u003cem\u003eThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Toll of the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRope\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous others. These meditations are careful and philosophical as much as energetically ruminative, yet are written in an accessible style for all interested readers who both love cinema and wonder about that love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter can stand alone, even though all work together to challenge perspectives on what we encounter, experience, think, and feel when we watch films. Across its chapters, \u003cem\u003eEdge of the Screen\u003c\/em\u003e takes on a wide range of topics: the ontology of film; the relation between characters, actors, and the figures who appear onscreen; film’s relationships to the other arts, especially painting but also novels and theatre; the passage of time in film, and its momentary character; film criticism, including deeply held values such as coherence; film’s relationship to mortality; and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430657278188,"sku":"9798765128329","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798765128329.jpg?v=1774558898","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/edge-of-the-screen-by-professor-murray-pomerance-9798765128329","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}