{"product_id":"uncanny-cinema-agonies-of-the-viewing-experience-paperback","title":"Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMurray Pomerance\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurray 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 \u003ci\u003eOn the Waterfront \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eMarriage Story, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUncanny Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMurray Pomerance\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Silence from Hitchcock \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), \u003ci\u003eColor It True: Impressions of Cinema \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2022), \u003ci\u003eA Voyage with Hitchcock\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eGrammatical Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eThe Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2020), \u003ci\u003e Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2019), \u003ci\u003eA Dream of Hitchcock\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), and \u003ci\u003eCinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory \u003c\/i\u003e(2018)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781519442208,"sku":"9781501398780","price":73.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/34f6c7f026923e0ff38d62656404017f.webp?v=1780552512","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/uncanny-cinema-agonies-of-the-viewing-experience-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}