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New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place …

The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various chall …

Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces–The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some lesser known, yet equally compelling cinematic achievements–The F …

In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen …

Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of man s best friends (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, U …

There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single sho …

Today s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives they re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist Andre Bazin. To stude …

Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America s most p …

Elizabeth Taylor’s electrifying performance in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo Di Caprio’s turn as Arnie in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? What make …

Elizabeth Taylor’s electrifying performance in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo Di Caprio’s turn as Arnie in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? What make …

Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock’s most intruiging and successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Through a close rea …

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, …

The constellation of Hollywood stars burned brightly in the 1950s, even as the industry fell on hard economic times. Major artists of the 1940s–James Stewart, Jerry Lewis, and Gregory Peck–continue …

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.Beginning w …

From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990s. He has attracted attention for h …

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 ic …

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 fost …

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 fost …

A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock’s reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form. Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many tortuo …

A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock’s reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form. Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many tortuo …

Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock’s most intruiging and successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Through a close rea …

This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of f …

This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of f …

Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America s most p …

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 …

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 …

Director Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical Hollywood-Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce, to name only …

Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers developing ever more material featuring autistic characters. Autism i …

This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer’s placement at the edge of the screen. Every page is an opportunity to think about an aspect of film, or of …

This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer’s placement at the edge of the screen. Every page is an opportunity to think about an aspect of film, or of …