John Huston's FilmmakingCambridge University Press, 1997 M10 13 - 269 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
What We Are Alone Is Not Enough | 15 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 | 17 |
The Man Who Would Be King 1975 | 32 |
Hustonian Themes in an Atypical Genre The African Queen 1951 | 49 |
Are They Ready to Go Home? | 73 |
The Misfits 1961 and the Idea of John Hustons Films | 75 |
No Betrayal of Despair The Night of the Iguana 1964 | 92 |
Reflections in a Golden Eye 1967 | 155 |
The Heart of the Problem | 171 |
Freud 1961 | 173 |
Fat City 1972 Maybe Were All Happy | 191 |
Hustons Adieux | 205 |
The Dead 1987 | 207 |
An Open Book 1980 Sufficiently Absurd | 227 |
Films Directed by John Huston | 241 |
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