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to cinema: performance and its vicissitudes; the suspicion of pleasure and its substitution by “cinephilia”; illumination as manipulation of belief; asceticism and effect.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University and the author of numerous volumes, most recently <i>The Man
Who Knew Too Much</i> (BFI 2016) and <i>Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance </i>(Rutgers 2016). His book <i>A Dream of Hitchcock</i> is forthcoming. He has edited or co-edited <i>Close-Up, Hamlet Lives in Hollywood, Cinema and Modernity, A Little
Solitaire</i>, and more than two dozen other books. He edits the “Horizons of Cinema” series at SUNY Press and “Techniques of the Moving Image” at Rutgers.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">For further details on Professor Pomerance see</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">: </span></span><a href="https://www.ryerson.ca/sociology/about-us/faculty/faculty-bios/pomerancem/" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">https://www.ryerson.ca/sociology/about-us/faculty/faculty-bios/</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 238, 148); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">pomerance</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">m/</span></span></a></p>
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