{"product_id":"an-invention-without-a-future-9780520279735","title":"An Invention without a Future","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" Slant \"Every essay here is a polished gift from a master of the literary essay.\" -- David Bordwell Observations on Film Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction: An Invention without a Future   PART I. 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 II. 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 III. IN DEFENSE OF CRITICISM  James Agee  Manny Farber  Andrew Sarris  Jonathan Rosenbaum  Four Years as a Critic: 2007--2010   Works Cited  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742254268759,"sku":"9780520279735","price":50.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520279735.jpg?v=1758383771","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-invention-without-a-future-9780520279735","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}