John Huston's filmmaking

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by Lesley Brill

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > John Huston
Keywords: John Huston
Publishing date: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Collection: Cambridge Studies in Film
Language: English

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

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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

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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.

Press Reviews:
‘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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