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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