Cinema, If You Please

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the author of The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (2020), Grammatical Dreams (2020), Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic (2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), and Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory (2018), among many other volumes, and editor or co-editor of more than two dozen books including The Other Hollywood Renaissance (2020). He edits the “Horizons of Cinema” series at SUNY Press and the “Techniques of the Moving Image” series at Rutgers. A Voyage with Hitchcock and Color It True: Impressions of Cinema are both forthcoming.

• Introductory1. Beyond the Sea2. A Barbaric Rose3. Walk on the Wild SideIntermezzo: Tell Me Again4. A Million Things5. Rhapsody in GreenAcknowledgments

Independent scholar Murray Pomerance is one of the most original and eclectic films critics working today. In the present volume Pomerance examines, in minute detail, such classic films as Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven, 1946), and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966), and also recent films like Olivier Assayas’s The Clouds of Sils Maria (2016) and Personal Shopper (2017). Pomerance’s vision is uniquely his own; his stunning erudition jumps off the page with each fresh insight, each new way of looking at cinema and its concomitant disciplines. Pomerance’s writing is rich, seductive, and sensuous, drawing the reader into a closer encounter with film and life itself.