{"product_id":"uncanny-cinema-murray-pomerance-9781501398780","title":"Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eOn the Waterfront \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eMarriage Story, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUncanny Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e 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 thoughts on vocality and imagination before delving into three exploratory 'movements' arranged to alternately challenge, inspire, and confound the reader to question if we know what we think we know or even see what we think we see. The viewer is faced with disturbances, ruptures, and surprises that occur during the viewing experience, which Pomerance analyzes to stretch the sense of what we do and do not (or, possibly, cannot) know, particularly as we think, talk, and write about cinema\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Murray Pomerance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501398784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501398780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Murray Pomerance","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075854856447,"sku":"9781501398780","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_edd4543a-9cc0-4fd5-8bb7-d58339ac6b2f.jpg?v=1685461832","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uncanny-cinema-murray-pomerance-9781501398780","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}