Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

Objectivists in Cinema

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by Benoît Turquety

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Keywords: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, director, France
Publishing date: 2020
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Collection: Film Culture in Transition
Language: English

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Hardcover • 316 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-94-6372-220-9

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Dani le Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European literature by authors including Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich H lderlin, Pierre Corneille, Arnold Schoenberg, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini. The impact of their work comes in part from a search for radical objectivity, a theme present in certain underground currents of modernist art and theory in the writings of Benjamin and Adorno as well as in the Objectivist movement, a crucial group within American modernist poetry whose members included Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff, with connections to William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Through a detailed analysis of the films of Straub and Huillet, the works they adapted, and Objectivist poems and essays, Beno t Turquety locates common practices and explores a singular aesthetic approach where a work of art is conceived as an object, the artist an anonymous artisan, and where the force of politics and formal research attempt to reconcile with one another.

About the Author:
Benoît Turquety is a professor in the film department at the University of Lausanne and director of the SNF research project on Bolex and amateur cinema. He is a founding member of the Material Archival Studies Network, and a member of the Dispositives research group, of the Network for Experimental Media Archaeology, and the Technology and the Humanities project.

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