Murray Pomerance


Murray Pomerance is an independent Canadian film scholar and author living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Career

Pomerance was born in 1946 in Hamilton, Ontario and studied at the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, the New School for Social Research, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and York University.
Pomerance has written extensively on film, cinematic experience, and performance, and has also edited and co-edited more than two dozen anthologies exploring cinema. He contributes regularly to print and online publications, including Film International, Senses of Cinema and FLOW. In addition, Pomerance is editor of the “Techniques of the Moving Image” series at Rutgers University Press and the “Horizons of Cinema” series at State University of New York Press and, with Lester D. Friedman and Adrienne L. McLean respectively, co-editor of both the “Screen Decades” and “Star Decades” series at Rutgers University Press.
He is on the editorial board of The New Review of Film and Television Studies. His book Johnny Depp Starts Here has been translated into the French as Ici Commence Johnny Depp, and into the German as Johnny Depp: Betrachtungen zu einem Schauspieler.
Pomerance also writes fiction, and is a 1992 O. Henry Award winner. His work has appeared in New Directions, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Boston Review, Chelsea, Confrontation, and Descant. He is the author, as well, of Ludwig Bemelmans: A Bibliography.
Pomerance has also been involved in film production, appearing in Brandon Cronenberg’s Broken Tulips, and acting, writing, and composing for R. Bruce Elder’s Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World. In the summer of 2009, he appeared on Broadway in conjunction with a performance of The 39 Steps. In August 2013, his co-authored commentary appeared on the Criterion DVD of John Frankenheimer's Seconds. In October 2017 he appeared on BBC Radio 3's "Free Thinking."

Works published