Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience

by Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501398784
• ISBN13: 9781501398780
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"