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Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema

Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema

Murray Pomerance

But in this book, Murray Pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni’s greatest works.
An Eye for Hitchcock

An Eye for Hitchcock

Murray Pomerance

Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema.
Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual ...

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual ...

Casey Ryan Kelly

75. 76. 77. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance, “Introduction,” in Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood, edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance, 13–24 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002), 13.
Alfred Hitchcock's America

Alfred Hitchcock's America

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and critically commented upon in ...
Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward It is remarkable how infrequently one finds an actual definition of "boys" in the literature of boyhood. To be sure, "boys" are males who have not yet reached adulthood, but what exactly, in our society ...
Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen

Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen

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Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen Murray Pomerance. McKelly, James C. 1996. “Youth Cinema and the Culture of Rebellion: Heathers and the Rebel Archetype.” In Murray Pomerance and John Sakeris, eds., Pictures of a ...
The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema

The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema

Murray Pomerance

For scholars of film and readers who love cinema, these essays will be rich and playful inspiration.
The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect

The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect

Murray Pomerance

The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive.
Where the Boys are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

Where the Boys are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

Murray Pomerance

Gina. Marchetti. Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from ...
George Cukor

George Cukor

Murray Pomerance

The various essays in this volume, all written by prominent experts in the field, offer critical discussions of every feature film Cukor directed and include a rich trove of valuable information about their production histories.
Johnny Depp Starts Here

Johnny Depp Starts Here

Murray Pomerance

An exploration of our fascination with Johnny Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture studies the actor's image in terms of its ambiguity and its many strange nuances. Simultaneous.
Cinema and Modernity

Cinema and Modernity

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In Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by seventeen leading scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity.
The Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond ...

The Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond ...

Murray Pomerance

In the street outside we see Judy, walking down to the corner to catch her daily ride to school with the gang. She is wearing a green dress, the ... He blinks, pauses and sees Judy” (Stern screenplay, 31 January, 17). By mid-March, assistant ...
City that Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination

City that Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination

Murray Pomerance

From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Rosemary's Baby, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and ...
The Monthly (alphabetical) record of births, deaths, & ...

The Monthly (alphabetical) record of births, deaths, & ...

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Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in ...

Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in ...

Patricia Cleary

28 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to [Mrs. Rowe], 24 April 1770. 29 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to Mrs. Dehlois, 1 3 April 1 770, JMR. 30 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to unknown. [Fehruary 1770], JMR. 31 Elizabeth (Murray Smith to James Murray, ...
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2013

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2013

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... UT 166,042 1987 Lewis Feild, Elk Ridge,UT 144,335 1988 Dave Appleton, Arlington,TX 121,546 1989 Ty Murray, Odessa, TX 134,806 1990 Ty Murray, Stephenville, TX 213,772 1991 Ty Murray, Stephenville, TX 244,230 1992 Ty Murray, ...
Estuary Blue

Estuary Blue

Andrew Murray Scott

Andrew Murray Scott. GRAD 828 S4238es Andrew Murray Scott ^^^^ Acclaim for Tumulus by Andrew Murray Scott 'He can write. Front Cover.
Loyalty

Loyalty

Ingrid Thoft

Dr. Gerald Murray. The name was familiar, but she couldn't place it. She walked back to her car and called Scotty. “Do you know a guy named Gerald Murray?” she asked when he got on the line. “Gerry Murray?” “I guess. He's a doctor.
The Andrew Murray Daily Reader in Today's Language

The Andrew Murray Daily Reader in Today's Language

Andrew Murray

For longtime readers of Andrew Murray's books as well as those new to his work, this book will become a beloved classic devotional.
The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental ...

The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental ...

N. J. Girardot

On James Murray, see Elisabeth Murray, Caught in the Web. Murray (who died in 1915) and his wife, Ada, requested to be buried next to their old friends and fellow members of the George Street Congregational Church, Andrew Fairbairn and ...
Jewels Along The Newell

Jewels Along The Newell

Margaret Dwyer

Dr Phillip Gerald Murray Dr Phillip Murray was born 12th January 1932, in Sydney, the youngest of the four sons of pharmacist Harold Roy Murray and Ethyl Sarah (nee Thornton) of Annandale. Phillip's father built the pharmacy on farmland ...
The Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania

The Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania

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Photographer Murray Rae The parata, Ōhope marae. Photographer Murray Rae Meeting house interior, Ōhope marae. Photographer Murray Rae Tukutuku panels, Ōhope marae. Photographer Murray Rae Futuna Chapel exterior. Image used ...
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Rosalind Rosenberg

Slate, Colored Cosmopolitanism, 208–212; Joseph Kip Kosek, Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 186. Pauli Murray, diary, January 3, 1941 (Murray ...
Bladesmithing with Murray Carter: Modern Application of ...

Bladesmithing with Murray Carter: Modern Application of ...

Murray Carter

Bladesmithing with Murray Carter provides the reader with an in-depth look into traditional Japanese Cutlery forging techniques and their modern applications.
At the Foot of Dragon Hill

At the Foot of Dragon Hill

Florence J. Murray

Covers Dr. Murray's work as a missionary doctor in Hamheung, 1921-1942.
American Cowboy

American Cowboy

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Take Ty Murray, for example. When he went down in 1995 with knees in dire need of reconstruction, there were doubters: skeptics who speculated that we'd seen the last of rodeo's answer to Tiger Woods. Then, when Murray tore up not one ...
Murray Rothbard

Murray Rothbard

Gerard Casey

Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) was an economist, historian, philosopher, and legal theoretician.
Stoic, Christian and Humanist

Stoic, Christian and Humanist

Gilbert Murray

This book collects together four essays by the very well-known academic Gilbert Murray that were first presented between 1914 and 1939.

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