John Huston's filmmaking
John Huston's Filmmaking analyzes the career of one of cinema's most versatile artists. Lesley Brill argues that Huston created a body of work far richer than the formulaic stories of masculine failure with which he is often credited. Stylish, superbly scripted, and informed by a wry sense of humor, Huston's films portray characters who attempt to conceive their identities. His work consistently returns to questions of love and mortality; of happiness and home; of society and the individual; and of the connections among what one of his most famous characters called "the Lord or fate or nature."
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521583596, 9780521586702, 0521583594, 0521586704
35886590
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.
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