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The Film Cheat - Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (Paperback)
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The Film Cheat - Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (Paperback)
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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 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.
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