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  • An Eye for Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, are extraordinarily famous and have been see...
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    134,48 €

  • The Biggest Thing in Show Business
    Matthew Solomon / Murray Pomerance
    A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo’s phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business look...
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    30,67 €

  • Uncanny Cinema
    Murray Pomerance
    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 Waterfrontto Marriage Story,Uncanny Cinema illuminates that words and writing are in perilous waters when applied to cinema, similar to ungestured talk. The book ...
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    50,61 €

  • A Silence from Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.In A Silence from Hitchcock, Murray Pomerance explores the resonating power of silence in the director’s work-its variation, its haunting temptation, and its technical power. Working from a meditative devotion to and an illuminating familiarity with the director’s work, Pomerance shines light upon six films, some...
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    49,41 €

  • Color It True
    Murray Pomerance
    This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor or symbol, or else part of a broader signifying system. Murray Pomerance’s latest meditation on cinema has the author embed hi...
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    50,54 €

  • A Voyage with Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchcock’s work gives extensive meditations on six films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich...
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    49,41 €

  • Virtuoso
    Murray Pomerance
    Elizabeth Taylor’s electrifying performance in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio’s turn as Arnie in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes these performances so special? Eloquently written and engagingly laid out, Murray Pomerance answers the tough question as to what makes an exceptional, or virtuosic performance. Po...
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    47,90 €

  • A Dream of Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Explores the director’s repeated voyages into the dreamlike.A Dream of Hitchcock examines the recurring motif of the dream in Hitchcock’s work-dreamscapes, dream processes, the dream effect-by focusing on close readings of six celebrated but often misinterpreted films: Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Saboteur, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, and Family Plot. The Hitchcockian drea...
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    47,04 €

  • American Cinema of the 1950s
    Murray Pomerance
    America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a brave new world of luxury goods.Throughout the decade Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department pressing fo...
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    45,58 €

  • Bad
    Murray Pomerance
    Examines the many forms of cinematic 'badness' over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema’s earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen representations of negativity in all its forms-evil, monstrosity, corruption, ugliness,...
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    49,40 €

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
    Murray Pomerance
    Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls examines the bizarre and fascinating range of gender portrayals in film at the end of the twentieth century. In order to view the screened face of gender in bold new ways, the contributors cover a wide variety ...
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    49,44 €