{"product_id":"an-invention-without-a-future-james-naremore-9780520279742","title":"An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema","description":"In 1895, Louis Lumi re 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, Ra l 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Naremore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520279743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520279742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.37h x 5.78w x 0.91d","brand":"James Naremore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919952412927,"sku":"9780520279742","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_62f6d1d3-9caf-436e-811e-0d07d6ce5055.jpg?v=1680812820","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-invention-without-a-future-james-naremore-9780520279742","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}