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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 January 2010
      13 October 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511624339
      9780521586702
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624339
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.395kg, 288 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Film
      Subjects:
      Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Film
    Subjects:
    Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication
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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.

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    ‘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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