John Huston's filmmaking

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de Lesley Brill

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > John Huston

Mots Clés

John Huston

Année d'édition

1997

Editeur

Cambridge University Press

Collection

Cambridge Studies in Film

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Paperback • 269 pages
6 ½ x 9 ½ inches (16.5 x 24 cm)

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ISBN-13

0-521-58359-4
978-0-521-58359-6

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Description de l'ouvrage:
John Huston's Filmmaking offers an analysis of the life and work of one of the greatest American independent filmmakers. Always visually exciting, Huston's films sensitively portray humankind in all its incarnations, chronicling the attempts by protagonists to conceive and articulate their identities. Fundamental questions of selfhood, happiness and love are intimately connected to the idea of home, which for the filmmaker also signified a congenial place among other people in the world. In this study, Lesley Brill shows Huston's films to be far more than formulaic adventures of masculine failure, arguing instead that they demonstrate the close connection between humanity, the natural world, and divinity.

Revue de Presse:
‘In this thoughtful study Brill accounts for Huston’s critical neglect by pointing the finger squarely at 50s and 60s auteur critics …’.
Source: Sight and Sound

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