| Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists in Cinema Contributor(s): Turquety, Benoît (Author), Fendt, Ted (Translator) |
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ISBN: 9463722203 ISBN-13: 9789463722209 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Individual Director - Literary Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.27 lbs) 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dani le 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 H lderlin, 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, Beno t 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. |