The Film Cheat
Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure
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 foster the impression of a screen reality that does not exist as presented. This usually calls for a suspension of disbelief in the viewer, but that rests on the assumption that disbelief is problematic for viewership, and that we must find some way to suspend or disconnect it in order to allow for the entertainment of the fiction in its own terms.The Film Cheat explores forty-five aspects of the 'cheat,' analyzing classic films such as Singin' in the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5013-6496-9
- EAN: 9781501364969
- Produktnummer: 35074515
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 13'463 KB
- Abbildungen: 48 bw illus
Über den Autor
Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016).
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