The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni by Peter Brunette

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni by Peter Brunette

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni provides an overview of the Italian director's life and work, and examines six of his most important and intellectually challenging films. L'avventura, La notte, and L'eclisse, released in the early 1960s, form the trilogy that first brought the director to international attention. Red Desert was his first film in colour. Blow-up, shot in English and set in swinging London, became one of the best-known (and most notorious) films of its era. The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson, is the greatest work of his maturity. Rather than emphasizing the stress and alienation of Antonioni's characters, in this book Peter Brunette places the films in the context of the director's ongoing social and political analysis of the Italy of the great postwar economic boom, and demonstrates also how they are formal exercises that depend on painterly abstraction for their expressive effects.

' … a long-overdue review of an auteur too often dismissed or ignored' David Martin-Jones, Film-Philosophy

Brunette, Peter: - Peter Brunette, a professor of English and film studies at George Mason University, is the author of Roberto Rossellini and The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni. With David Wills he co-authored Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory.

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ISBN 13	9780521389921
ISBN 10	0521389925
Title	The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
Author	Peter Brunette
Series	Cambridge Film Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1998-09-28
Number of pages	204
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