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 (with Kenneth Boulding and Theodore Newcomb), the New School for Social Research (with Benjamin Nelson), the State University of New York at Buffalo (with Edgar Z. Friedenberg and Warren Bennis), 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" (tr. Pauline Soulat; Éditions Capricci 2010), and into the German as "Johnny Depp: Betrachtungen zu einem Schauspieler" (tr. Andrea Rennschmid; Reinhard Weber Verlag 2006).
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" (Heineman, 1993).
Pomerance has also been involved in film production, appearing in Brandon Cronenberg’s "Broken Tulips" (2008), and acting, writing, and composing for R. Bruce Elder’s "Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World" (1985). 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 (with R. Barton Palmer) appeared on the Criterion DVD of John Frankenheimer's "Seconds". In October 2017 he appeared on BBC Radio 3's "Free Thinking."