Cinema Then and Now

<p>Part memoir part critical inquiry <em>Cinema Then and Now</em> is a wide-ranging conversation with distinguished film scholar and critic James Naremore. In this book-length interview he nreflects on his youth education and decades as a writer and teacher before turning to questions that have shaped his career and continue to animate debates around cinema: the politics of film the formation of canons the challenges of adaptation the evolution of genres the collaborative nature of filmmaking and the place of cinema in the age of streaming and digital decay. Occasionally zooming in on specific films - from <em>Psycho</em> to <em>Citizen Kane</em> to <em>Letter from an Unknown Woman</em> - Naremore traces how directors screenwriters composers designers and editors solve problems and create meaning. The result is a thought-provoking generously illustrated reflection on Hollywood and world cinema of past present and future written with the clarity insight and candor that have made Naremore's work essential reading for over half a century.</p>