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1 Online-Ressource (xii, 269 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511624339
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in film
Content:
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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1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) -- 2. The Man Who Would Be King (1975) -- 3. Hustonian Themes in an Atypical Genre: The African Queen (1951) -- 4. Misfits (1961) and the Idea of John Huston's Films -- 5. "No Betrayal of Despair": The Night of the Iguana (1964) -- 6. Let There Be Light (1946, released 1980) -- 7. Heavens Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) -- 8. Theater, Identity, and Reality in The Maltese Falcon (1941) -- 9. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) -- 10. Freud (1961) -- 11. Fat City (1972): "Maybe We're All Happy" -- 12. The Dead (1987) -- 13. An Open Book (1980): "Sufficiently Absurd" -- Filmography: Films Directed by John Huston.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521583596
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521586702
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521583596
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511624339
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