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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Benoît Turquety , Ted FendtPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press Edition: 0 Volume: 0 ISBN: 9789463722209ISBN 10: 9463722203 Pages: 316 Publication Date: 27 January 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Professional & Vocational , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS I. EROTIC BARBARITY: OTHON 1. A Play, A Film 2. Principles 3. Tradition and Opacity II. OBJECTIVITY AND OBJECTIVITIES 1. Huillet and Straub-style 'Objectivity' 2. Objectivities 3. The Objectivists: A History 4. Objectivist Poetic Theory PART TWO: LANGUAGE/AUTHORITY III. THE POWER OF SPEECH (OR THE VOICE), OF SEEING AND THE PATH: MOSES AND AARON 1. Moses, Aaron, Schoenberg, Huillet & Straub 2. The Cinematic Form of (the Absence of) God: 'The Calling of Moses' 3. Language Remains 4. Birth of a Nation: Act II and End 5. Objective on Objective: Huillet and Straub's Position IV. SPEECH AGAINST POWER, OR POETRY, LOVE, AND REVOLUTION: 'A'-9 1. A Poem, History 2. The Form of 'A'-9 3. Value and Meaning: Capitalism and Abstraction 4. Love as a Poetic/Revolutionary Technique PART THREE: INTERRUPTIONS V. CINEMA, POETRY, HISTORY: IMMOBILIZATIONS 1. Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's 'Musical Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene': Motion and Pause, Cinema as History 2. From Ideogram to Fugue: Poetry/Cinema 3. Interruptions 4. Continuities 5. History Without a Name 6. Braiding, Cutting PART FOUR: TRIALS, SERIES VI. INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION FOR THE LAST TIME: CLASS RELATIONS 1. Trials 2. On Space VII. ON DISSOLUTION 1. Speech Without Authority: The Death of Empedocles 2. On Dismantling: Testimony and Workers, Peasants CONCLUSION INDEXReviewsAuthor InformationBenoît Turquety is a professor in the film department at the University of Lausanne and director of the SNF research project on Bolex and amateur cinema. He is a founding member of the Material Archival Studies Network, and a member of the Dispositives research group, of the Network for Experimental Media Archaeology, and the Technology and the Humanities project. Ted Fendt is a translator, editor, filmmaker, and projectionist based in New York. He is the editor of Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet (Austrian Film Museum, 2016), has translated English subtitles for the films of Jean-Marie Straub since 2013, and his translations of film criticism have appeared in print and online in publications including Cinema Scope, Mubi Notebook, Lola Journal and Robert Bresson (Revised) (ed. James Quandt, 2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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