'This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer's pla...

Light Thoughts is about the interaction of thought between the spectator and the film in cinema; ...

For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comed...

Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, Th...

The development of young masculine sexuality is still a cultural taboo of sorts, and until now th...

Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political...

Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on ...

Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on ...

From the Wizard of Oz to Lolita, from the Heathers to the Spice Girls, images of girlhood have be...

Examines the many forms of cinematic 'badness' over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to...

Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.

Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, Th...

Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

A Silence from Hitchcock

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration f...

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration f...

Hamlet Lives in Hollywood: John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen Edited by Murray Pome...

Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cine...

'An MGM-style all-star cast of critics provide innumerable fresh insights into Cukor's rich and s...

In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less ...

From ''Street Scene'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' to ''Rosemary's Baby'', ''The Warriors'', an...

With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brough...

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they’re just as like...

The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomp...

Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most intruiging and success...

There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general...

This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the ...

From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue an...

Bringing together original essays by ten respected scholars in the field, American Cinema of the ...

With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brough...

Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of MemoryBy Murray PomeranceIn Cinema, If...

This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the ...

America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear ...

Brings together several essays by seventeen scholars to explore the complexity of the essential c...

Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.

Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scen...

In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, givin...

Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces--The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days ...

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'che...

The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights tha...

This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the ...

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they’re just as like...

What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary,...

This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the ...

'The Other Hollywood Renaissance is an extraordinary volume which testifies to the incredible ric...

Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of MemoryBy Murray PomeranceIn Cinema, If...

Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political...

John Barrymore's influence on screen and stage in the early twentieth century is incalculable. Hi...