This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer's placement at the edge of the screen. Every page is an opportunity to think…

A witty and provocative re-evaluation of the phenomenon known as Jerry Lewis, an accomplished yet controversial figure in American cinema.

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

Examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film industry and for America itself. Perhaps reflecting America’s cultural fragmentation and uncertainty, Hollywood’s star personas sent…

Delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses that coalesce in an instant of cinematic alchemy to create movie gold. Considering a…

Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.

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…

Discusses aspects of boyhood and its relation to cinema - in particular, the process whereby masculinities are socially, historically, economically, aesthetically, and psychologically created in male coming-of-age as depicted onscreen.