Murray Pomerance is an independentCanadian film scholar and author living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and adjunct professor in the School of Media and Communication atRMIT University, Melbourne.
Pomerance has written extensively onfilm, cinematic experience, andperformance, and has also edited and co-edited more than two dozen anthologies exploring cinema. He contributes regularly to print and online publications, includingFilm International,Senses of Cinema and FLOW.[1] In addition, Pomerance is editor of the “Techniques of the Moving Image” series atRutgers University Press and the “Horizons of Cinema” series atState 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 atRutgers University Press.
His bookJohnny Depp Starts Here has been translated into the French asIci Commence Johnny Depp[2] (tr. Pauline Soulat; Éditions Capricci 2010), and into the German asJohnny Depp: Betrachtungen zu einem Schauspieler (tr. Andrea Rennschmid; Reinhard Weber Verlag 2006).[3]
He was diagnosed with autism in the spring of 2018.
Pomerance has also been involved in film production, appearing in Brandon Cronenberg'sBroken Tulips (2008), and acting, writing, and composing forR. Bruce Elder’sLamentations: A Monument to the Dead World (1985). In the summer of 2009, he appeared onBroadway in conjunction with a performance ofThe 39 Steps. In August 2013, his co-authored commentary (with R. Barton Palmer) appeared on theCriterion DVD ofJohn Frankenheimer'sSeconds.[5] In October 2017 he appeared on BBC Radio 3's "Free Thinking."
