The horse who drank the sky : film experience beyond narrative and theory / Murray Pomerance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 when we watch them. By 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 Rebel Without a Cause, Dead Man, Chinatown, The Graduate, North by Northwest, Dinner at Eight, Jaws, M, Stage Fright, Saturday Night Fever, The Band Wagon, The Bourne Identity, 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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Overture

1. A Voluptuous Gaze

2. The Hero in the China Sea

3. A Great Face

4. The Smoke and the Knife

5. A Call from Everywhere

6. As Time Goes By

7. The Speaking Eye

8. Not an Unusual Story

9. The Horse Who Drank the Sky

Works Cited and Consulted

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-77656-4

9786611776565

0-8135-4496-3

OCLC:

437222348