John Huston's Filmmaking
John Huston's Filmmaking
£22.99
GBPJohn 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.
- First extended characterisation in English of Huston's film authorship
- Includes detailed analyses of a dozen films and a summary of current scholarship
- Unique extended analyses of Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Fat City, and other works
Reviews & endorsements
'In this thoughtful study Brill accounts for Huston's critical neglect by pointing the finger squarely at 50s and 60s auteur critics …'. Sight and Sound
Product details
December 1997Paperback
9780521586702
288 pages
228 × 153 × 20 mm
0.395kg
12 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. What We Are Alone is Not Enough: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- The Man Who Would Be King
- The African Queen
- Part II. Are They Ready To Go Home?: The Misfits
- The Night of the Iguana
- Let There Be Light
- Part III. Trying to Account for Themselves: Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- The Maltese Falcon
- Reflections in a Golden Eye
- Part IV. The Heart of the Problem: Freud
- Fat City
- Part V. Huston's Adieux: The Dead
- An Open Book.
