The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory

by Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches, and riddles the viewer through an image that transcends narrative and theory. In The Horse Who Drank the Sky, Murray Pomerance brings attention to the visceral dimension of movies and presents a new and unanticipated way of thinking about what happens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813543282
• ISBN13: 9780813543284
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"