{"product_id":"the-horse-who-drank-the-sky-film-experience-beyond-narrative-and-theory-paperback-softback-9780813543284","title":"The Horse Who Drank the Sky; Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813543284","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Horse Who Drank the Sky\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFilm Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMurray Pomerance (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813543284\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 April 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages, 4 images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.397 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eA testament to the critical force of cinephilia, this book moves effortlessly across a dazzling array of films and ways of reading them. Pomerance counts among the most compelling writers on cinema in the contemporary field.\u003c\/div\u003e - Tom Conley (Harvard University) \u003cdiv\u003eA testament to the critical force of cinephilia, this book moves effortlessly across a dazzling array of films and ways of reading them. Pomerance counts among the most compelling writers on cinema in the contemporary field.\u003c\/div\u003e - Tom Conley (Harvard University) \"Pomerance’s joy in celebrating the cinematic moment, whether visual or sonic, does not obscure his knack for sophisticated film analysis.\" - John Fidler (Senses of Cinema) Today, the introduction of new media and non-theatrical viewing intersect with traditional theoretical approaches, making Pomerance's polemic all the more poignant. - Jennifer L. Fleeger (Quarterly Review of Film and Video)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWhat 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Horse Who Drank the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, Murray Pomerance brings attention to the visceral dimension of movies and presents a new and unanticipated way of thinking about what happens when we watch them.\u003cp\u003eBy looking at point of view, the gaze, the voice from nowhere, diegesis and its discontents, ideology, the system of the apparatus, invisible editing, and the technique of overlapping sound, he argues that it is often the minuscule or transitional moments in motion pictures that penetrate most deeply into viewers' experiences. In films that include \u003ci\u003eRebel Without a Cause\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDead Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChinatown\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth by Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDinner at Eight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJaws\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eM\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStage Fright\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Band Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bourne Identity\u003c\/i\u003e, and dozens more, Pomerance invokes complexities that many of the best of critics have rarely tackled and opens a revealing view of some of the most astonishing moments in cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOverture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about the studios Neubabelsberg, \u003ci\u003eThe Dreamers\u003c\/i\u003e, Doris Day, and the predicament of the \"\u003cbr\u003eonlooker,\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNow, Voyager, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDead Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. \u003ci\u003eA Voluptuous Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about a dream of Sandra Oh, \u003ci\u003eShort Cuts, Safe, Sideways, The Lookout, Disturbia, The Dead Zone, \u003c\/i\u003ethe gaze or the glance, turning away from film, the \"\u003cbr\u003ecinema of attractions,\"\u003cbr\u003e glancing at plot, \u003ci\u003eMagnolia\u003c\/i\u003e, battle effects, \u003ci\u003eRebecca, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Gojira, \u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003epanoramic perception,\"\u003cbr\u003e and vertiginous games\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eThe Hero in the China Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about Nicholas Ray's filmmaking, storylines and lines of action, performance and continuity, and \u003ci\u003eRebel Without a Cause\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003ci\u003eA Great Face\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about Alfred Hitchcock, \u003ci\u003eNorth by Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, monuments and legalities, Mount Rushmore, stereopticons and the rear-projection process, Gary Cooper, George W. Bush, James Stewart, and Cary Grant\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eThe Smoke and the Knife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about Fritz Lang's \u003ci\u003eM,\u003c\/i\u003e police procedure, craft thieving, the rationality of smoke, women in Weimar Germany, motherhood and surveillance, severing and civilization\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eA Call from Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about \u003ci\u003eOn the Beach, The Exorcist, acousmetre:\u003c\/i\u003e the voice that cannot be seen, \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz, And the Ship Sails On..., The Man Who Knew Too Much, Pan's Labyrinth, Trafic, \u003c\/i\u003enarrative and de-acousmatization, and \u003ci\u003eStage Fright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003eAs Time Goes By\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about cinematic transitions, \u003ci\u003eClose Encounters of the Third Kind, Lawrence of Arabia \u003c\/i\u003eand the pre-lap, \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger, Blackmail, The Graduate, \u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003efaux pre-lap\"\u003cbr\u003e in \u003ci\u003eChinatown,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThree Days of the Condor, The Conversation, \u003c\/i\u003ethe upholstering buffer, the \u003ci\u003eacousmetre passe,\u003c\/i\u003e the \"\u003cbr\u003egasp\"\u003cbr\u003e and the \"\u003cbr\u003eturn,\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom Russia with Love, The Bourne Identity, Saturday Night Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, editing and sound in the 1970s, Stanley Kubrick and Nestor Almendros\u003cbr\u003e 7. \u003ci\u003eThe Speaking Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about the speaking eye, the democratic screen, \u003ci\u003eJaws\u003c\/i\u003e, animal performance, acting authenticity, falling out of role, cinematic realism and cinematic reality, \u003ci\u003eMy Man Godfrey\u003c\/i\u003e, Mischa Auer, \"\u003cbr\u003ereading\"\u003cbr\u003e the screen, the morality and politics of watching, the \"\u003cbr\u003edoctrine of natural expression,\"\u003cbr\u003e the filmmaker's will, and cinematic \"\u003cbr\u003eimportance\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eNot an Unusual Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about \u003ci\u003eVertigo, Dinner at Eight,\u003c\/i\u003e the sound revolution, John Barrymore, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Laugh,\u003c\/i\u003e class structure and the comedy of manners, modernity and social collapse, The Great Depression and \u003ci\u003eressentiment, \u003c\/i\u003ewriting that obliterates the writer, \"\u003cbr\u003elooking marvelous,\"\u003cbr\u003e performance and biography, and the acting of Marie Dressler\u003cbr\u003e 9.\u003ci\u003e The Horse Who Drank the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thinking about the cinematic sense of place, fragmentation, shellshock, explosions in cinema, \u003ci\u003eBabel, Until the End of the World, Royal Wedding, \u003c\/i\u003eextraterritoriality and television, \u003ci\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c\/i\u003e, the coup d'oeil, \u003ci\u003eSergeant York\u003c\/i\u003e, \"\u003cbr\u003eInvisible landscapes,\"\u003cbr\u003e theater design and \"\u003cbr\u003emarginal appreciation,\"\u003cbr\u003e mental vertigo, \u003ci\u003eThe Bourne Supremacy,\u003c\/i\u003e Tourettic cinema, \u003ci\u003eBlow-Up\u003c\/i\u003e, color, and \u003ci\u003eThe Band Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited and Consulted\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559290597656,"sku":"9780813543284","price":26.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-horse-who-drank-the-sky-film-experience-beyond-narrative-and-theory-paperback-softback-9780813543284","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}