Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory

by Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

In Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Wedding the notion of pleasure in film viewing to the history of pleasure in the West, the book considers pleasure gardens and promenading; the history of oil painting and its display; the passion for travel and exposure to the exotic and strange; and forms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147442869X
• ISBN13: 9781474428699
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"