Check order status

Become part of a community of book lovers from all over the world and get access to a whole bunch of benefits. Create an account for free

Austrian Post 5.49 € DPD courier 3.99 € DPD point 2.99 €

Contact

How to shop

Help

My account

▸ Empty :-(

Invention without a Future

Name: Invention without a Future
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 04618253
Price: 77.49 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: James Naremore
ISBN: 9780520279735

Essays on Cinema

James Naremore

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04618253

Publishers University of California Press, January 2014

In 1895, Louis Lumiere supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremor... Full description

Libristo code: 04618253

190 b

77.49 € VAT included

In stock at our supplier Shipping in 10-18 days

Delivery to Austria

Up to 30 days for returns

Customers also purchased

Autodesk Inventor 2019 - Aufbaukurs Konstruktion Christian Schlieder

Paperback

22.95 €

In 1895, Louis Lumiere 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, Raul 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.