{"product_id":"uncanny-cinema-by-professor-murray-pomerance-9781501398780","title":"Uncanny Cinema","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurray 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 \u003cem\u003eOn the Waterfront\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eMarriage Story\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUncanny Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates that words and writing are in perilous waters when applied to cinema, similar to ungestured talk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601039900908,"sku":"9781501398780","price":137.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c2f876b97b0800a07d4b211408c04584.jpg?v=1778019002","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/uncanny-cinema-by-professor-murray-pomerance-9781501398780","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}