The Cinema of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub

<p>Viewing the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub means looking at the construction of cinema itself: image sound performance montage. Their work constitutes one of the most distinctive beautiful and politically radical oeuvres of modern cinema and has attracted the attention of a wide range of philosophers filmmakers and cineastes. Their sensual cinema of the eye and ear is as rich as the many texts and documents - musical literary and visual - that have served as the basis of individual works. Their films propose a Marxist critique of capitalism and suggest alternative ways of living.</p><p>This volume grew out of the complete retrospective of the films of Huillet and Straub held in London in 2019 which all the authors attended. Editors Martin Brady and Helen Hughes are specialists in German political and documentary cinema.</p><p></p>