John Huston's Filmmaking

Lesley Brill

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Lesley Brill, Wayne State University, Michigan

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2010
Print publication year:: 1997
Online ISBN:: 9780511624339
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624339

Series:: Cambridge Studies in Film
Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication

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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.

‘In this thoughtful study Brill accounts for Huston’s critical neglect by pointing the finger squarely at 50s and 60s auteur critics …’.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-x

Preface and Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

John Huston's Filmmaking
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-14

Section I - “What We Are Alone Is Not Enough”
pp 15-16

1 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
pp 17-31

2 - The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
pp 32-48

3 - Hustonian Themes in an Atypical Genre: The African Queen (1951)
pp 49-72

Section II - “Are They Ready to Go Home?”
pp 73-74

4 - The Misfits (1961) and the Idea of John Huston's Films
pp 75-91

5 - “No Betrayal of Despair”: The Night of the Iguana (1964)
pp 92-110

6 - Let There Be Light (1946, released 1980)
pp 111-120

Section III - “Trying to Account for Themselves”
pp 121-124

7 - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
pp 125-142

8 - Theater, Identity, and Reality in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
pp 143-154

9 - Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
pp 155-170

Section IV - The Heart of the Problem
pp 171-172

10 - Freud (1961)
pp 173-190

11 - Fat City (1972): “Maybe We're All Happy”
pp 191-204

Section V - Huston's Adieux
pp 205-206

12 - The Dead (1987)
pp 207-226

13 - An Open Book (1980): “Sufficiently Absurd”
pp 227-240

Filmography: Films Directed by John Huston
pp 241-244

Notes
pp 245-260

Selected Bibliography of Writings on John Huston
pp 261-264

Index
pp 265-269

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