Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub : 'objectivists' in cinema / Benoît Turquety ; translated from the French by Ted Fendt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turquety, Benoît, author.

Contributor:

Fendt, Ted, translator.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film Culture in Transition

Standardized Title:

Objectivistes en cinema. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Straub, Jean-Marie--Criticism and interpretation.

Straub, Jean-Marie.

Huillet, Danièle--Criticism and interpretation.

Huillet, Danièle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part One. Foundations

1. Erotic Barbarity: Othon

2. Objectivity and Objectivities

Part Two. Language/Authority

3. The Power of Speech (or the Voice), of Seeing and the Path: Moses And Aaron

4. Speech against Power, or Poetry, Love, and Revolution: "A"-9

Part Three. Interruptions

5. Cinema, Poetry, History: Immobilizations

Part Four. Trials, Series

6. Industrial Civilization for the Last Time: Class Relations

7. On Dissolution

Conclusion

About the Author

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Dec 2020).

First published as: Benoît Turquety, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, objectivistes en cinéma, Editions l'Age d'Homme 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-69365-2

90-485-6154-X

90-485-4306-1

9781003693659

OCLC:

1178543208