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1 online resource (369 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Naremore, James. Invention without a future : essays on cinema. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] xi, 356 pages 9780520279735 (DLC) 2013032932 |
| ISBN |
9780520279735 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780520279742 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780520957947 (electronic bk.) |
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