Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World by Seymour Benjamin Chatman

Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World by Seymour Benjamin Chatman

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Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. This book shows how difficult it was for the filmmaker to liberate his art from the conventional means of rendering narrative, especially dialogue, conventional sound effects, and commentative music.

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Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World by Seymour Benjamin Chatman

Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. This book shows how difficult it was for the filmmaker to liberate his art from the conventional means of rendering narrative, especially dialogue, conventional sound effects, and commentative music.
Seymour Chatman (August 30, 1928 - November 4, 2015) was an American film and literary critic and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

He is one of the most significant figures of American narratology (theory of narrative), being regarded as a prominent representative of its Structuralist or classic branch.

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ISBN 13 9780520053410
ISBN 10 0520053419
Title Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World
Author Seymour Benjamin Chatman
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1985-11-03
Number of pages 384
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