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John Huston as Adaptor

John Huston as Adaptor

McFarland, Douglas
King, Wesley

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

DirectorsFilm StudiesFilmmaking

ISBN10: 1438463723
ISBN13: 9781438463728
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2018
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Argues that understanding Huston's film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.

John Huston as Adaptor makes the case that adaptation is the salient element in Huston's identity as a filmmaker and that his early and deep attraction to the experience of reading informed his approach to film adaptation. Thirty-four of Huston's thirty-seven films were adaptations of literary texts, and they stand as serious interpretations of literary works that could only be made by an astute reader of literature. Indeed, Huston asserted that a film director should be above all else a reader and that reading itself should be the intellectual and emotional basis for filmmaking.

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