Murray Pomerance
Johnny Depp Starts Here
- Copyright year: 2005
American Cinema of the 1950s
Themes and Variations
- Copyright year: 2005
Cinema and Modernity
In Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by seventeen leading scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. Among the many films considered are Detour, Shock Corridor, The Last Laugh, and Experiment in Terror.
- Copyright year: 2006
City That Never Sleeps
New York and the Filmic Imagination
- Copyright year: 2007
American Cinema of the 1960s
Themes and Variations
- Copyright year: 2008
The Horse Who Drank the Sky
Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory
By looking at point of view, the gaze, the voice from nowhere, diegesis and its discontents, ideology, the system of the apparatus, invisible editing, and the technique of overlapping sound, he argues that it is often the minuscule or transitional moments in motion pictures that penetrate most deeply into viewers' experiences. In films that include Rebel Without a Cause, Dead Man, Chinatown, The Graduate, North by Northwest, Dinner at Eight, Jaws, M, Stage Fright, Saturday Night Fever, The Band Wagon, The Bourne Identity, and dozens more, Pomerance invokes complexities that many of the best of critics have rarely tackled and opens a revealing view of some of the most astonishing moments in cinema.
Larger Than Life
Movie Stars of the 1950s
- Copyright year: 2010
A Little Solitaire
John Frankenheimer and American Film
- Copyright year: 2011
Shining in Shadows
Movie Stars of the 2000s
Shining in Shadows examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film industry and for America itself. Perhaps reflecting our own cultural fragmentation and uncertainty, Hollywood’s star personas sent mixed messages about Americans’ identities and ideals. With a multigenerational, international cast of stars, this collection presents a fascinating composite portrait of Hollywood stardom today.
- Copyright year: 2012
Pretty People
Movie Stars of the 1990s
In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself, signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Eyes Have It
Cinema and the Reality Effect
The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Murray Pomerance takes readers on an illuminating filmic journey through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 2000s to show how the viewer’s experience of “reality” is put in context and willfully engaged.