Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

Objectivists in Cinema

Benoît Turquety, Ted Fendt

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Routledge
01 December 2025

Humanities; Media studies

Series: Film Culture in Transition

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.

By: Benoît Turquety
Translated by: Ted Fendt
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781041177913
ISBN 10: 1041177917
Series: Film Culture in Transition
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

INTRODUCTION, PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS, PART TWO: LANGUAGE/AUTHORITY, PART THREE: INTERRUPTIONS, PART FOUR: TRIALS, SERIES, CONCLUSION, INDEX

Benoît 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).