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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025

Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025 - Paperback

by A. S. Hamrah
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Availability:In StockContributor:A. S. HamrahPublish date:12/2/2025Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:N+1ISBN-13:9781953813183ISBN-10:1953813186UPC:9781953813183Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Film, Essays, Media StudiesBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.19 x 5.51 x 1.34 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC6YY957S0

"A. S. Hamrah's writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely." --Elif Batuman

"Unerring" (Bookforum), "hilarious" (Dana Spiotta), "our age's most irreplaceable critic" (Guernica), "a genius" (Kenyon Review), A. S. Hamrah returns with an extraordinary collection of his best film writing for n+1, The Baffler, The New York Review of Books, the Criterion Collection, and other publications. Algorithm of the Night assembles Hamrah's essays on films and filmmakers and his inimitable, aphoristic reviews--a body of work that, taken together, presents a powerful alternative to a culture mired in publicity and stale convention. A journey through the overlapping dystopias of the Trump years, the Covid years, and the Trump years, Algorithm of the Night attends with remarkable style and precision to a film industry in self-imposed crisis, a chronicle of failures and occasional miracles from AI to The Zone of Interest. Against the tides of ignorance and solipsism, Algorithm of the Night is film criticism as literature and--perhaps--prophecy.

Language:EnglishPublisher:N+1ISBN-13:9781953813183ISBN-10:1953813186UPC:9781953813183Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Film, Essays, Media StudiesBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.19 x 5.51 x 1.34 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC6YY957S0
Hamrah, A. S.: - A. S. Hamrah is the author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018. He is the film critic for n+1 and writes for a number of other publications, including Harper's, Bookforum, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Fast Company, The Baffler, and the Criterion Collection. He has worked as a movie theater projectionist, a semiotic brand analyst in the television industry, a political pollster, a football cinematographer, and for the film director Raúl Ruiz. He produced the feature-length documentary Bunker, directed by Jenny Perlin, which was the opening night film at the Museum of Modern Art's Doc Fortnight in 2022. He lives in New York.
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