An invention without a future : essays on cinema /
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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Table of 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.