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Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience

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Product Code: 9781501398780
ISBN13: 9781501398780
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Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience

$50.51
 
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 what we think we see. The viewer is faced with disturbances, ruptures, and surprises that occur during the viewing experience, which Pomerance analyzes to stretch the sense of what we do and do not (or, possibly, cannot) know, particularly as we think, talk, and write about cinema


Author: Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: Nov 30, 2023
Number of Pages: 344 pages
Binding: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10: 1501398784
ISBN-13: 9781501398780
 

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