Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience

by Murray Pomerance

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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 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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1501398784
  • ISBN13 9781501398780
  • Publish Date 30 November 2023 (first published 20 October 2022)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 344
  • Language English