Naremore, James. <br/><br/>
An invention without a future :  essays on cinema / 
James Naremore. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520957947 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995  / .I584 2014