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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025

Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025

Hamrah, A. S.

Paperback

Letters & EssaysFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1953813186
ISBN13: 9781953813183
Publisher: N+1
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.34 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.19
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.

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