An Invention without a Future : Essays on Cinema /

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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 es...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Naremore, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Film.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Films.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: 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.

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