The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure

by Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, performance, and structuring maneuvers intended to foster the impression of a screen reality that does not exist as presented. This usually calls for a suspension of disbelief in the viewer, but that rests on the assumption that disbelief is problematic for viewership, and that we must find some way to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501364987
• ISBN13: 9781501364983
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"