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OverviewMurray 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 Rain and Chinatown, to more contemporary films like The Revenant and Baby Driver, with Pomerance engaging his encyclopedic knowledge of film history to point out numerous instances of suspensions of disbeliefs. Whether or not Gene Kelly is actually dancin' in the rain, or if Elliott is really flying on his bicycle carrying E.T., these cheats are what make movie magic. Elegantly weaving the narrative for one to dip into at random or to read from cover to cover, Pomerance turns things upside down so that the audience actually finds pleasure in the cheat itself, pleasure in the disbelief. To see the elegant fake, the supremely accomplished simulacrum is a pleasure in its own right, indeed one of the fundamental pleasures of cinema. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Weight: 0.652kg ISBN: 9781501364983ISBN 10: 1501364987 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 15 October 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Preamble: The Viewer as ""Mark"" Of Scripts 1. Yesterdays 2. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 3. Narrative Transparency 4. The Cheating Cut 5. Narrative Opacity 6. The Narrator Hides 7. Taxi Cheat 8. And Here Endeth my Tale 9. Only Pretending 10. Keeping Minutes Of Performing 11. Monster! 12. A Star, Not a Star 13. Pain 14. Measuring Up 15. Privacy 16. Signed 17. Keyed Up 18. Don't Believe It 19. ""I Love You"" 20. Surrender Of Cameras 21. Corral 22. Show Me 23. On the Road 24. ""Good Cinematography"" 25. ""Look at the Picture"" 26. Peek-a-Boo 27. Moving On 28. Behind the Camera Behind 29. All the Way Not to Holland Of Scenes 30. No There There 31. Where are We? 32. Walk on the Wild Side 33. Happy Trails 34. The Thing 35. Heist 36. The Reality Effect 37. Stand-ins 38. A Superheroic Universe Of Cuts 39. Believe in Me 40. Over Thames 41. Something is Happening 42. Veni creator spiritus 43. ""Bite the Dust"" 44. Reflect on That 45. Presence and Presentation 46. By Contrast 47. The Blood Effect 48. Our Cheating Heart: Not an Introduction Bibliography Index"ReviewsMore Sprezzatura theorizing from one of the most exciting and iconoclastic film scholars writing today. A thoroughly original focus on a topic that, previously undiscussed, is revealed as incredibly significant to the realism debate in media studies more generally, once Pomerance identifies it. * Richard Barton Palmer, Calhoun Lemon Professor Emeritus of English, Clemson University, USA * Author InformationMurray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Canada. He is the editor of the Techniques of the Moving Image series and the Horizons of Cinema series, and co-editor, with Lester D. Friedman and Adrienne L. McLean respectively, of the Screen Decades and Star Decades series. Pomerance has written, edited and co-edited several books, including Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic (2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), Cinema, If You Please (2018), Moment of Action (2016), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013), The Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience beyond Narrative and Theory (2008), and two BFI Classics on Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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