LEADER 03591nam 2200613 450 001 9910453714703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-27974-3 010 $a0-520-95794-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520957947 035 $a(CKB)2550000001165548 035 $a(EBL)1568699 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059900 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11985587 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059900 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086022 035 $a(PQKB)11283228 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1568699 035 $a(OCoLC)867631069 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32353 035 $a(DE-B1597)519850 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520957947 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1568699 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10811127 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL546816 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001165548 100 $a20130904h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn invention without a future $eessays on cinema /$fJames Naremore 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2014] 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-27973-5 311 $a1-306-15565-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: An invention without a future -- Part 1. Issues -- Authorship, auteurism, and cultural politics -- The reign of adaptation -- Notes on acting in cinema -- Imitation, eccentricity, and impersonation in movie acting -- The death and rebirth of rhetoric -- Part 2. Authors, actors, adaptations -- Hawks, Chandler, Bogart, Bacall: The big sleep -- Uptown folk: blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky -- Hitchcock and humor -- Hitchcock at the margins of noir -- Spies and lovers: North by Northwest -- Welles, Hollywood, and Heart of darkness -- Orson Welles and movie acting -- Welles and Kubrick: two forms of exile -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The return of the dead -- Part 3. In defense of criticism -- James Agee -- Manny Farber -- Andrew Sarris -- Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Years as a critic: 2007-2010. 330 $aIn 1895, Louis Lumičre supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a wide-ranging series of his essays on movies past and present. These essays include discussions of authorship, adaptation, and acting; commentaries on Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, John Huston, and Stanley Kubrick; and reviews of more recent work by non-Hollywood directors Pedro Costa, Abbas Kiarostami, Raśl Ruiz, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Important themes recur: the relations between modernity, modernism, and postmodernism; the changing mediascape and death of older technologies; and the need for robust critical writing in an era when print journalism is waning and the humanities are devalued. The book concludes with essays on four major American film critics: James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. 606 $aMotion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotion pictures. 676 $a791.43 700 $aNaremore$b James$0456838 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453714703321 996 $aAn invention without a future$92459606 997 $aUNINA