Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025 by Hamrah, A. S.

Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025

"A. S. Hamrah's writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism,...
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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025 by Hamrah, A. S.

Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025

$34.29

Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025

$34.29
Author: A. S. Hamrah
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"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.



Author: A. S. Hamrah
Publisher: N+1
Published: 12/02/2025
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.51w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9781953813183

About the Author
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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