John Huston's filmmaking

1998; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 35; Issue: 08 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.35-4396

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

Lesley Brill,

Tópico(s)

Cinema and Media Studies

Resumo

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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