Barton Byg - Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
Barton Byg - Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
1995 | ISBN: 0520089103 | English | 324 pages | PDF | 5.7 MB
1995 | ISBN: 0520089103 | English | 324 pages | PDF | 5.7 MB
Fervently admired and frequently reviled, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet—who have lived and worked together for almost forty years—may well be the most uncompromising, not to say intransigent, filmmakers in the history of the medium. Their radical and deeply political films placed them as forerunners of the New German Cinema movement in the 1960s and influential figures in the subsequent explosion of the European avant-garde. In Landscapes of Resistance, Barton Byg fills a significant gap in modern German and European cinema studies by tracing the career of the two filmmakers and exploring their connection to German modernism, in particular their relationship to the Frankfurt School.