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Murray Pomerance
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Vincente Minnelli:
The Art of Entertainment
edited by Joe McElhaney
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009
Contains: "Style, Calculation, and Counterpoint in
The Clock"
Second Star to the Right:
Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination
edited by Allison B. Kavey and Lester D. Friedman
New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009

Contains: "Tinker Bell, the Fairy of Electricity"

 

A Family Affair:
Cinema Calls Home
edited by Murray Pomerance
London: Wallflower Press, 2008
Contains: "The Look of Love: Cinema and
the Dramaturgy of Kinship"

 

 

American Cinema of the 1960s:
Themes and Variations
edited by Barry Keith Grant
New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008
Contains: "1967: Movies and the Specter of Rebellion"

 

501 Movie Directors:
A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers

edited by Steven Jay Schneider
New York: Barron's, 2007
Contains: entries on sixteen directors including Michelangelo Antonioni, Youssef Chahine, Alfred Hitchcock, Ron Howard, Jerry Lewis,
Anthony Minghella, and Steven Spielberg
The Little Black Book: MOVIES
(Defining Moments in Movies:
The Greatest Films, Stars, Scenes and Events
That Made Movie Magic)

edited by Chris Fujiwara
London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007
Contains: entries on twenty-two films including Alien, Annie Hall,
The Big Red One, Play Time, Sunset Blvd.,
and Written on the Wind

Monstrous Adaptations:
Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film
edited by Richard Hand and Jay McRoy
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007
Contains: "Marion Crane Dies Twice" (new edition)    

 

City That Never Sleeps:
New York and the Filmic Imagination
edited by Murray Pomerance
New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007
Contains: "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Hitchcock's New York "

 

All That Heaven Allows:
The Cinema of Todd Haynes

Edited by James Morrison
London: Wallflower Press, 2007
Contains: "Safe in Lotosland"

The Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film
edited by Barry Keith Grant
Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007
Contains: entries on “Animal Actors," "Cinematography," "Color,” "Credits,"
"Gregg Toland," "Nestor Almendros," and "Saul Bass"

 

From Hobbits to Hollywood:
Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
edited by Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance
Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, 2007
Contains: "The Laddy Vanishes"

 

Youth Culture in Global Cinema
edited by Timothy Shary and Alexandra Seibel
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007
Contains: "Pachyderm's Progress"

 

Cinema and Modernity
edited by Murray Pomerance
New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006
Contains: "Nothing Sacred: Modernity and Performance
in Catch Me If You Can"

 

 

American Cinema of the 1950s:
Themes and Variations
edited by Murray Pomerance
New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005
Contains: "1957: Movies and the Search for Proportion"

 

 

Where the Boys Are:
Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth
edited by Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005
Contains: "The Man-Boys of Steven Spielberg"

 


Rebel Without a Cause:

Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork

edited by J. David Slocum
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005
Contains: "Stark Performance"

 

New Hollywood Violence
edited by Steven Jay Schneider
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004
Contains: "Alfred Hitchcock's Dramaturgy of Screen Violence"

 

BAD:
Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen
edited by Murray Pomerance
New York: State University of New York Press, 2004
Contains: "Tom Ripley's Talent"

 

Film and Television After 9/11
edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004
Contains: "The Shadow of the World Trade Center
is Climbing My Memory of Civilization "


1001 Movies You Must See
Before You Die

edited by Steven Jay Schneider
London: Quintet, 2004
Contains: entries on Shane, Laura, Dead Man, and Yankee Doodle Dandy

 

 

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice:
Cinemas of Girlhood
edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002
Contains: "'Don't understand, my own darling: The Girl
Grows up in Shadow of a Doubt"

 

 

Enfant Terrible!:
Jerry Lewis in American Film
edited by Murray Pomerance
New York: New York University Press, 2002
Contains: "The Errant Boy: Morty S. Tashman and the
Powers of the Tongue"

 

 

The End of Cinema as We Know It
edited by Jon Lewis
New York : New York University Press, 2002
Contains: "The Man Who Wanted to Go Back"

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls:
Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century
edited by Murray Pomerance
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001
Contains: "Marion Crane Dies Twice"

Soundtrack Available:
Essays on Film and Popular Music
edited by Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Durham: Duke University Press, 2001
Contains: "The future's not ours to see: Song, Singer, Labyrinth in
Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)"
   

The Hitchcock Annual 2000
edited by Sidney Gottlieb
Contains: "Two Bits for Hitch"   

Music and Cinema
edited by James Buhler, David Neumeyer, and Caryl Flinn
Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2000
Contains: "Finding Release: 'Storm Clouds' and The Man Who Knew Too Much"