Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience by Professor Murray Pomerance

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Uncanny Cinema

by Professor Murray Pomerance, Murray Pomerance

"An in-depth study of several films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulties of conveying the experience of viewing cinema"--

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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 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 Biography

Murray Pomerance 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 A Silence from Hitchcock (2023), Color It True: Impressions of Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2022), A Voyage with Hitchcock (2021), Grammatical Dreams (2020), The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (Bloomsbury, 2020), Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic (Bloomsbury, 2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), and Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory (2018).

Table of Contents

Prelude: Bright ExperienceBicameral man; Cape Fear; Wife vs. Secretary; VertigoPart I: Lost Voyagers1. SidesteppingThe Crown; Forms of Talk; Singin' in the Rain; Bringing Up Baby; The Band Wagon2. UnforgettableA Star is Born; Negotiating Hollywood; The Hunchback of Notre Dame3. BanquetLabor; Reversal of Fortune4. Plastic SurgeryAdvertising; The Long Goodbye; Samson and Delilah5. RegistrationsStar registrations; Dark Passage; Lee Marvin; Arnold Schwarzenegger6. Great ExpectationsThe Philadelphia Story; The Bourne Identity; The Manchurian Candidate (1962); The Lonedale Operator; The Portrait of a Lady; Vera Miles7. Naming of PartsThe body; Hugo; Strangers on a Train; Silence; Psycho; Pan's Labyrinth; Fellini Satyricon; Invaders from Mars (1953); Syriana8. A FlickerThe Quiet Man; The King of Comedy; Jaws9. Being AliveChinatown; Being There; Magnolia; Cries and Whispers; The Shootist; East of Eden; The Bourne Supremacy; Dinner at Eight; War of the Worlds; The Third Man; Mildred Pierce; The Bad Seed; The Karate Kid; Carrie; The Entertainer; Marriage Story10. For Your Eyes OnlyLife; Alien; Saboteur; The Astronaut's Wife; Jaws; Imitation of Life (1954); Rear Window; His Girl Friday; Joy of Living; Godzilla; The Duchess11. HandsThe Theory of Everything; The Band Wagon; Howards End; Empire of the Sun; Twentieth Century; Blade Runner; The Lonedale Operator; Stairway to Heaven; The Big Sleep; Birth; "Life Lessons"; Vertigo12. A Logical GaspSome Like It Hot; The Thomas Crown Affair; Saturday Night Fever; A.I. Artificial Intelligence; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Big Night; The Graduate; Waterloo Bridge; The Greatest Show on Earth13. VigilThe Command; On the Beach; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The Wolf's Call14. PrivilegedA Most Wanted Man; Rebel Without a Cause; Stage Fright; The Incredible Shrinking Man; The Egyptian; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Dr. No; Sabrina; Forbidden Planet; Three Days of the Condor; The Talented Mr. Ripley15. Ting-a-ling-a-lingThe acousmêtre; The Errand Boy; Being John Malkovich; The Conversation; The President's Analyst; Wait Until Dark; The Thirteenth Guest16. Unheard VoicesBullitt; Lawrence of Arabia; F for Fake; The Hospital; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Ten Commandments (1956); Titanic; The Maltese Falcon; Casablanca; Gaslight; Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler; Rebecca; Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day; Men in Black; The Revenant 17. Remote ControlWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Searchers; On the Waterfront; Doctor Zhivago; The Big Sleep; Shane; Donnie Brasco; Klute; When Harry Met Sally . . .; The LaundromatPart II: Spectator, Watch Thyself18. ParanoiaBinge watching; Narcos Mexico; Homeland; Giri/Haji; the optimêtre; Gone Girl; Mindhunter19. Quote MeVertigo; Conflict; Tempest; La mariée était en noir; Marnie; J'ai épousé un ombre; No Man of Her Own; Nouvelle Vague; The Barefoot Contessa; F for Fake20. The Magic TouchMarathon Man; The Sound of Music; Rear Window; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The Incredible Shrinking Man; Star Wars (1977); Blow-Up; Marriage Story; The Kiss of the Spider Woman; Psycho; Devil in the Flesh; The Dreamers; Commando; Grease; The Fight Club21. Exeunt omnes.American Graffiti; Casablanca; Diva; The Graduate22. Throw It AwayRobert De Niro; Acting as being; The Train; Red River23. Who Are You?Bunny Lake Is Missing24. The Walking CureParis, Texas; Gerry; North by Northwest; Marathon Man; Rebel Without a Cause; Fahrenheit 451; The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); Midnight Cowboy; Day for Night25. The Picture DancesThe Sea Hawk; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Jaws; Catch Me If You Can26. TabooFilm and limits, Blow-Up, Blade Runner, 1939 General Motors Futurama, Disneyland, Until the End of the World27. Only ConnectFilms as theories, latent pattern maintenance, Dog Day Afternoon, Shane, purity and danger, The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, 55 Days at Peking28. The ImpatientChangeling; Ugetsu monogatari29. At the PartyAnnie Hall, Top Hat, Mystic River, Saturday Night Fever, John Wick, Flying Down to Rio, His Majesty O'Keefe, Tootsie, The Big Chill, Top Hat, Goodfellas, Play It Again, Sam, Romeo + Juliet30. Oh!Blow-Up; Somewhere in Time31. A Sight for Sore EyesVertigoPART III: The One-Eyed Stranger32. It's Like ThisThe Irishman; performance and visibility33. Taking OffRadical discontinuity; Harold Edgerton; contiguity and non-contiguity; My Dinner with Andre; Lawrence of Arabia; The Phantom of Liberty; The Return of Martin Guerre; Source Code; Interstellar; Pillow Talk; The Big Store; All the President's Men34. TopographiesThe Live by Night; West Side Story; the Haussmannized city; 8 1/235. Forget Me NotThe field of the previous36. InspiredReal events and Munich; Official Secrets; The Philadelphia Story; Jaws; Peter Pan37. Shades in the DarkThe Purple Rose of Cairo; cinema and the mass audience38. The JittersLanguage for sound and image; 6 Underground; 21 Bridges; systematic discontinuity; fugue; action cinema and attention deficit39. Irrational SpaceThe Maltese Falcon; Rope; Kiss Me Deadly; The Incredible Shrinking Man; Vertigo; Blow-Up; Zabriskie Point; Chinatown; My Dinner with Andre; sex, lies, and videotape; Birth; Personal Shopper; A Ghost Story40. Spaced OutBlow-Up; Consort Road; "Hitchcock and Art"; Psycho41. RabbitThe Red Shoes42. M'm! M'm! Good!"good" films; Cries and Whispers; Rabbit of Seville; L'Avventura; Vertigo; Plan 9 from Outer Space43. Brotherly LoveThe camera-friend; Crossfire44. The Star's TwinHoney Boy45. Wink WinkWalk-ons; Charlie's Angels; Superman Returns; Sunset Blvd.; The Night of the Hunter; Blade Runner; Blade Runner 2049; Battlestar Gallactica; Planet of the Apes (1968); The Planet of the Apes (2001); Mary Poppins (1964); Mary Poppins Returns (2018); War of the Worlds; The War of the Worlds; West Side Story (forthcoming); West Side Story (1961); "West Side Story" (1959)46. FilmicThe Jungle Book (1942); Rebecca (1940); Gone with the Wind (1939); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966); The Ten Commandments (1956); Empire of the Sun (1987); Top Hat; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Singin' in the Rain; Murder on the Orient Express (2017); Citizen Kane; Clash of the Titans; Alien47. Read ThisFinding Forrester; That Certain Summer48. Time ThisMy Dinner with Andre; Carnage; 2001: A Space Odyseey; Barry Lyndon; Words and Music; The Right Stuff; Halt and Catch Fire; Nick of Time; Irréversible; Memento; Betrayal; Still of the NightPostscriptum: Must I Know What I See?Index

Review

Written with the roving intelligence and grace for which the author is known, Uncanny Cinema bracingly explores mysteries of spectatorship that are often shunted aside when we interpret films. Pomerance has us bask in the uncanniness that conditions how we engage with various elements of spectacle: charismatic characters, bodies in motion, flights of dream and memory, high-speed action, emotional contours of serial drama, and sights and sounds that evoke touch. Addressed to both cinephiles and scholars, this constantly intriguing book sends us back to popular films and television shows with refined attention to their resonant uncertainties. * Rick Warner, Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA *
Murray Pomerance has written an astonishing book that journeys inside our entanglements with things we see on screen. His characteristic latticework of production insight and textual detail draws on a vast range of sources to fashion a book that is startling in its intellectual ambition and sobering in confronting us with the limits of expression in the face of what we see and hear in front of us. His prose carries the wicked lyrical intellect of Nabokov fused with the energy and allusive wit of Carlyle; he is the Montaigne of film studies, experimental, eloquent, and graceful: our friend and companion in each chapter's trips across the agony-wrought landscapes of viewing. * Jason Jacobs, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Queensland, Australia *

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An in-depth study of several films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulties of conveying the experience of viewing cinema.

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"Written with the roving intelligence and grace for which the author is known, Uncanny Cinema bracingly explores mysteries of spectatorship that are often shunted aside when we interpret films. Pomerance has us bask in the uncanniness that conditions how we engage with various elements of spectacle: charismatic characters, bodies in motion, flights of dream and memory, high-speed action, emotional contours of serial drama, and sights and sounds that evoke touch. Addressed to both cinephiles and scholars, this constantly intriguing book sends us back to popular films and television shows with refined attention to their resonant uncertainties." -- Rick Warner, Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA "Murray Pomerance has written an astonishing book that journeys inside our entanglements with things we see on screen. His characteristic latticework of production insight and textual detail draws on a vast range of sources to fashion a book that is startling in its intellectual ambition and sobering in confronting us with the limits of expression in the face of what we see and hear in front of us. His prose carries the wicked lyrical intellect of Nabokov fused with the energy and allusive wit of Carlyle; he is the Montaigne of film studies, experimental, eloquent, and graceful: our friend and companion in each chapter's trips across the agony-wrought landscapes of viewing." -- Jason Jacobs, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Queensland, Australia

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An in-depth study of several films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulties of conveying the experience of viewing cinema.

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Analyzes a wide range of film and television examples

Details ISBN1501398741 Year 2022 ISBN-10 1501398741 ISBN-13 9781501398742 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-11-17 UK Release Date 2022-11-17 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2022-11-17 US Release Date 2022-11-17 Author Murray Pomerance Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Illustrations 60 bw illus Pages 344 Subtitle Agonies of the Viewing Experience DEWEY 791.4301 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-11-16

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