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An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema

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An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema

An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema by James Naremore
English | University of California Press (January 10, 2014) | ISBN: 0520279743 | 368 pages | PDF | 137 MB

Taken as a whole, An Invention Without a Future serves as a fantastic overview of conversations concerning film history, while providing thoughtful analyses of important Classical Hollywood films and styles.""Every essay here is a polished gift from a master of the literary essay.""James Naremore is one of the most deservedly admired critics of our time, and this collection presents an array of perceptive, readable essays on critical, historical, and theoretical topics that have never been more clearly and articulately explored.

"Reading over this collection of essays, I am struck by how important James Naremore's voice is to the field. The notion of the film scholar as critic is, as he says at one point, an idea that is under siege. Naremore’s robust, pellucid, and consistently perceptive critical intelligence is the antidote to this denigration of criticism."
"For many of us who love to read about film, James Naremore is a treasure. This book contains one insightful essay after another on topics ranging from close studies of films like "North by Northwest" and the "Big Sleep," to examinations of the writings of renowned film critics. This book was a joy to read and never felt repetitive.

James Naremore is one of the most important of the third generation film scholars. He's published books on Welles, Kubrick, acting, film noir, and Minnelli. This volume collects various essays from the 1990s onward, including his treatment of four significant critics – Agee, Farber, Sarris, Rosenbaum – and also a collection of his own reviews for Film Quarterly over the course of a few years. In 1895, Louis Lumière 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, Raúl 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.

An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema



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