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Saer Ba
The Centre for Film Studies, University of St Andrews, presents:
17 February, 2009
5:15 pm.
Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, The Scores
Prof. Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
*/A Modern Gesture: Perpetual Motion and Screen Suspense/*
A discussion of modernity and cinema focuses on the construct of the
“screen gesture,” in which through various formations the cinematic
moment configures and symbolizes gesturally toward its audience in terms
of an attitude, orientation, or philosophical consideration.
Specifically, perpetual motion and its relation to the modern moment is
considered in detail in a reflection upon three cinematic moments: the
revolving door sequence at the beginning of F. W. Murnau’s /The Last
Laugh/; the “nonsense” dance that concludes Charlie Chaplin’s /Modern
Times/; and the sister’s entry into the haunted house in Alfred
Hitchcock’s /Psycho/.
Bio:
Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson
University. Author of /The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience
Beyond Narrative and Theory /(Rutgers 2008), /Johnny Depp Starts Here/
(Rutgers 2005), /An Eye for Hitchcock /(Rutgers 2004), /Savage Time/
(Oberon 2005), and /Magia D'Amore/ (Sun and Moon, 1999), he has edited
or co-edited numerous volumes, including /A Family Affair: Cinema Calls
Home /(Wallflower, 2008), /City That Never Sleeps: New York and the
Filmic Imagination/ (Rutgers 2007), /Cinema and Modernity/ (Rutgers
2006), /From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the
Rings/ (Rodopi 2006), /American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and
Variations/ (Rutgers 2005), /Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity
and Youth/ (Wayne State 2005), /BAD: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime
on Screen/ (State University of New York Press 2004), and /Enfant
Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film/ (New York University Press
2002). He is at work on a book about the colour films of Michelangelo
Antonioni. He is editor of the Horizons of Cinema series at State
University of New York Press and, with Lester D. Friedman and Adrienne
L. McLean respectively, co-editor of both the /Screen Decades/ and /Star
Decades/ series at Rutgers University Press.
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