What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches, and riddles the viewer through an image that transcends narrative and theory. In The Horse Who Drank the Sky, Murray Pomerance brings attention to the visceral dimension of movies and presents a new and unanticipated way of thinking about what happens when we watch them.
What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches, and riddles the viewer through an image that transcends narrative and theory. In The Horse Who Drank the Sky, Murray Pomerance brings attention to the visceral dimension of movies and presents a new and unanticipated way of thinking about what happens when we watch them.
Acknowledgments Overture Thinking about the studios Neubabelsberg The Dreamers Doris Day and the predicament of the "onlooker " Now Voyager and Dead Man 1. A Voluptuous Gaze Thinking about a dream of Sandra Oh Short Cuts Safe Sideways The Lookout Disturbia The Dead Zone the gaze or the glance turning away from film the "cinema of attractions " glancing at plot Magnolia battle effects Rebecca Requiem for a Heavyweight Gojira "panoramic perception " and vertiginous games 2. The Hero in the China Sea Thinking about Nicholas Ray's filmmaking storylines and lines of action performance and continuity and Rebel Without a Cause 3. A Great Face Thinking about Alfred Hitchcock North by Northwest monuments and legalities Mount Rushmore stereopticons and the rear-projection process Gary Cooper George W. Bush James Stewart and Cary Grant 4. The Smoke and the Knife Thinking about Fritz Lang's M police procedure craft thieving the rationality of smoke women in Weimar Germany motherhood and surveillance severing and civilization 5. A Call from Everywhere Thinking about On the Beach The Exorcist acousmetre: the voice that cannot be seen The Wizard of Oz And the Ship Sails On... The Man Who Knew Too Much Pan's Labyrinth Trafic narrative and de-acousmatization and Stage Fright 6. As Time Goes By Thinking about cinematic transitions Close Encounters of the Third Kind Lawrence of Arabia and the pre-lap The Passenger Blackmail The Graduate "faux pre-lap" in Chinatown Three Days of the Condor The Conversation the upholstering buffer the acousmetre passe the "gasp" and the "turn " From Russia with Love The Bourne Identity Saturday Night Fever editing and sound in the 1970s Stanley Kubrick and Nestor Almendros 7. The Speaking Eye Thinking about the speaking eye the democratic screen Jaws animal performance acting authenticity falling out of role cinematic realism and cinematic reality My Man Godfrey Mischa Auer "reading" the screen the morality and politics of watching the "doctrine of natural expression " the filmmaker's will and cinematic "importance" 8. Not an Unusual Story Thinking about Vertigo Dinner at Eight the sound revolution John Barrymore The Last Laugh class structure and the comedy of manners modernity and social collapse The Great Depression and ressentiment writing that obliterates the writer "looking marvelous " performance and biography and the acting of Marie Dressler 9. The Horse Who Drank the Sky Thinking about the cinematic sense of place fragmentation shellshock explosions in cinema Babel Until the End of the World Royal Wedding extraterritoriality and television Fahrenheit 451 the coup d'oeil Sergeant York "Invisible landscapes " theater design and "marginal appreciation " mental vertigo The Bourne Supremacy Tourettic cinema Blow-Up color and The Band Wagon Works Cited and Consulted Index
Acknowledgments Overture Thinking about the studios Neubabelsberg The Dreamers Doris Day and the predicament of the "onlooker " Now Voyager and Dead Man 1. A Voluptuous Gaze Thinking about a dream of Sandra Oh Short Cuts Safe Sideways The Lookout Disturbia The Dead Zone the gaze or the glance turning away from film the "cinema of attractions " glancing at plot Magnolia battle effects Rebecca Requiem for a Heavyweight Gojira "panoramic perception " and vertiginous games 2. The Hero in the China Sea Thinking about Nicholas Ray's filmmaking storylines and lines of action performance and continuity and Rebel Without a Cause 3. A Great Face Thinking about Alfred Hitchcock North by Northwest monuments and legalities Mount Rushmore stereopticons and the rear-projection process Gary Cooper George W. Bush James Stewart and Cary Grant 4. The Smoke and the Knife Thinking about Fritz Lang's M police procedure craft thieving the rationality of smoke women in Weimar Germany motherhood and surveillance severing and civilization 5. A Call from Everywhere Thinking about On the Beach The Exorcist acousmetre: the voice that cannot be seen The Wizard of Oz And the Ship Sails On... The Man Who Knew Too Much Pan's Labyrinth Trafic narrative and de-acousmatization and Stage Fright 6. As Time Goes By Thinking about cinematic transitions Close Encounters of the Third Kind Lawrence of Arabia and the pre-lap The Passenger Blackmail The Graduate "faux pre-lap" in Chinatown Three Days of the Condor The Conversation the upholstering buffer the acousmetre passe the "gasp" and the "turn " From Russia with Love The Bourne Identity Saturday Night Fever editing and sound in the 1970s Stanley Kubrick and Nestor Almendros 7. The Speaking Eye Thinking about the speaking eye the democratic screen Jaws animal performance acting authenticity falling out of role cinematic realism and cinematic reality My Man Godfrey Mischa Auer "reading" the screen the morality and politics of watching the "doctrine of natural expression " the filmmaker's will and cinematic "importance" 8. Not an Unusual Story Thinking about Vertigo Dinner at Eight the sound revolution John Barrymore The Last Laugh class structure and the comedy of manners modernity and social collapse The Great Depression and ressentiment writing that obliterates the writer "looking marvelous " performance and biography and the acting of Marie Dressler 9. The Horse Who Drank the Sky Thinking about the cinematic sense of place fragmentation shellshock explosions in cinema Babel Until the End of the World Royal Wedding extraterritoriality and television Fahrenheit 451 the coup d'oeil Sergeant York "Invisible landscapes " theater design and "marginal appreciation " mental vertigo The Bourne Supremacy Tourettic cinema Blow-Up color and The Band Wagon Works Cited and Consulted Index
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