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The relation between film spectatorship, perceptual and emotional engagement, and special effects is explored in light of a\u00a0signal achievement from the late 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, specifically the celebrated Mt. Rushmore chase sequence. What are some of the\u00a0production and dramaturgical issues\u00a0involved in having two protagonists\u00a0scaling the face of this monument?<\/p>\n

Murray Pomerance is an independent Canadian film scholar. He is the author of An Eye for Hitchcock<\/em> (2004), Johnny Depp Starts Here<\/em> (2005), The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory<\/em> (2008), Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema<\/em> (2011), The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect<\/em> (2013), Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance<\/em> (2016) and A Dream of Hitchcock<\/em> (2019), among others. He has also edited and co-edited more than two dozen anthologies, including Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century<\/em> (2001), Cinema and Modernity<\/em> (2006) and Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s<\/em> (2012). He is also the editor of film series for Rutgers University Press and State University of New York Press.<\/p>\n

Attendance is free but booking is recommended on cfac@reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Introduced by Dr. Lisa Purse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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