Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists in Cinema (1) (Film Culture in Transition)

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Synopsis
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European literature by authors including Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hölderlin, Pierre Corneille, Arnold Schoenberg, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini. The impact of their work comes in part from a search for radical objectivity, a theme present in certain underground currents of modernist art and theory in the writings of Benjamin and Adorno as well as in the Objectivist movement, a crucial group within American modernist poetry whose members included Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff, with connections to William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Through a detailed analysis of the films of Straub and Huillet, the works they adapted, and Objectivist poems and essays, Benoît Turquety locates common practices and explores a singular aesthetic approach where a work of art is conceived as an object, the artist an anonymous artisan, and where the force of politics and formal research attempt to reconcile with one another.
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
316 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040784389
Related ISBNs:
9781003693659, 9781041177913, 9789463722209, 9781040774823
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
B. Turquety / Taylor & Francis Group
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Ted Fendt

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