TY - BOOK AU - Pomerance,Murray TI - Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory SN - 9781474428682 AV - PN1995.2 .P66 2019 U1 - 791.4309 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Motion pictures and history KW - Motion pictures KW - Social aspects KW - Pleasure KW - History KW - Film, Media & Cultural Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introductory --; 1 Beyond the Sea --; 2 A Barbaric Rose --; 3 Walk on the Wild Side --; Intermezzo: Show Me Again --; 4 A Million Things --; 5 Rhapsody in Green --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - Examines how pre-modernist conceptions and social organizations of pleasure have impacted post-WWII filmExplores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesCase studies include: Vertigo; The Passenger; A Matter of Life and Death; Clouds of Sils Maria; Personal Shopper; Call Me By Your Name; and Blow-UpIntensive concentration on screen colour and effectsIn Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Wedding the notion of pleasure in film viewing to the history of pleasure in the West, the book considers pleasure gardens and promenading; the history of oil painting and its display; the passion for travel and exposure to the exotic and strange; and forms of musical repetition and restatement. With in-depth studies of films like Vertigo, The Passenger, A Matter of Life and Death, Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper, Call Me By Your Name and Blow-Up, this ground-breaking book draws the reader into the past and the present at once, joining an understanding of personal and visual delight to their cultural and historical roots UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428705 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474428705 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474428705/original ER -