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Author Turquety, Benoît, author.

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

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Film culture in transition
Film culture in transition.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One Foundations -- 1. Erotic Barbarity: Othon -- A Play, A Film -- Principles -- Tradition and Opacity -- 2. Objectivity and Objectivities -- Huillet and Straub-style "Objectivity" -- Objectivities -- The Objectivists: A History -- Objectivist Poetic Theory -- Part Two Language/Authority -- 3. The Power of Speech (or the Voice), of Seeing and the Path: Moses And Aaron -- Moses, Aaron, Schoenberg, Huillet & Straub -- The Cinematic Form of (the Absence of) God: "The Calling of Moses" -- Language Remains -- Birth of a Nation: Act II and End
Objective on Objective: Huillet and Straub's Position -- 4. Speech against Power, or Poetry, Love, and Revolution: "A"-9 -- A Poem, History -- The Form of "A"-9 -- Value and Meaning: Capitalism and Abstraction -- Love as a Poetic/Revolutionary Technique -- Part Three Interruptions -- 5. Cinema, Poetry, History: Immobilizations -- Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's "Musical Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene": Motion and Pause, Cinema as History -- From Ideogram to Fugue: Poetry/Cinema -- Interruptions -- Continuities -- History Without a Name -- Braiding, Cutting
Part Four Trials, Series -- 6. Industrial Civilization for the Last Time: Class Relations -- Trials -- On Space -- 7. On Dissolution -- Speech Without Authority: The Death of Empedocles -- On Dismantling: Testimony and Workers, Peasants -- Conclusion -- About the Author -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Vitorrini. 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 and in a long-forgotten movement of American modernist poetry, "Objectivism," 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.
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Subject Straub, Jean-Marie -- Criticism and interpretation.
Straub, Jean-Marie.
Criticism and interpretation.
Huillet, Danièle -- Criticism and interpretation.
Huillet, Danièle.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Fendt, Ted, translator.
Added Title Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub. English
Other Form: Print version: Turquety, Benoît. Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020 9789048543069
ISBN 9789048543069 electronic book
9048543061 electronic book
9463722203
9789463722209
Standard No. 10.1515/9789048543069.