An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: An Invention without a Future 1 part i. issues Authorship, Auteurism, and Cultural Politics 15 The Reign of Adaptation 33 Notes on Acting in Cinema 49 Imitation, Eccentricity, and Impersonation in Movie Acting 58 The Death and Rebirth of Rhetoric 77 part ii. authors, actors, adaptations Hawks, Chandler, Bogart, Bacall: The Big Sleep 87 Uptown Folk: Blackness and Entertainment in Cabin in the Sky 104 Hitchcock and Humor 124 Hitchcock at the Margins of Noir 139 Spies and Lovers: North by Northwest 156 Welles, Hollywood, and Heart of Darkness 172 Orson Welles and Movie Acting 187 Welles and Kubrick: Two Forms of Exile 198 viii / Contents The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 215 The Return of The Dead 231 part iii. in defense of criticism James Agee 247 Manny Farber 264 Andrew Sarris 275 Jonathan Rosenbaum 289 Four Years as a Critic: 2007–2010 305 Works Cited 327 Index 337 ...