John Huston's Filmmaking offers an analysis of the life and work of one of the greatest
American independent filmmakers. Always visually exciting Huston's films sensitively portray
humankind in all its incarnations chronicling the attempts by protagonists to conceive and
articulate their identities. In this study Lesley Brill shows Huston's films to be far more
than formulaic adventures of masculine failure arguing instead that they demonstrate the close
connection among humanity the natural world and divinity.
