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An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema

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By (author): James Naremore

In 1895, Louis Lumiere 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, Raul 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 635g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jan 2014
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780520279735

About James Naremore

James Naremore is Emeritus Chancellors'' Professor of Communication and Culture English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. His books include More Than Night Acting in the Cinema The Magic World of Orson Welles The Films of Vincente Minnelli and On Kubrick.

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