Author: Peter Brunette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521389921
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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An analysis of the life and work of the Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni.

Author: Bert Cardullo
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781934110669
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Collected interviews with the Italian filmmaker who directed L'avventura, La notte, Blow Up, and Zabriskie Point

Author: Seymour Chatman
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783822830895
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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"Containing many illustrations from Michelangelo Antonioni's own archives, this text explores his life and career from his earliest documentaries to his latest collaborations"--Publisher's description.

Author: Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520948300
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema’s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s—L’avventura, La Notte, L‘eclisse—are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni’s greatest works. Writing in an accessible style that evokes Antonioni’s expansive use of space, Pomerance discusses The Red Desert, Blow-Up, Professione: Reporter (The Passenger), Zabriskie Point, Identification of a Woman, The Mystery of Oberwald, Beyond the Clouds, and The Dangerous Thread of Things to analyze the director’s subtle and complex use of color. Infusing his open-ended inquiry with both scholarly and personal reflection, Pomerance evokes the full range of sensation, nuance, and equivocation that became Antonioni’s signature.

Author: Seymour Chatman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520907663
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, Seymour Chatman argues, is narration by a kind of visual minimalism, by an intense concentration on the sheer appearance of things and a rejection of explanatory dialogue. Though traditional audiences have balked at the "opacity" of Antonioni's films, it is precisely their rendered surface that is so eloquent once one learns to read it. Not despite, but through, their silences the films show a deep concern with the motives, perceptions and vicissitudes of the emotional life. This study covers films not dealt with in any other book on the great director, including Il mistero di Obertwald (1980) and Identificazione di una donna (1982), which have not yet been seen in the U.S. Its coverage of the early documentaries and features, when Antonioni was forging his new and original stylistic "language," is especially full. In a free-ranging analysis of the evolution of Antonioni's style that quotes liberally from Antonioni's own highly articulate writings and interviews, Chatman 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. From his first efforts to his triumphant achievements in the tetralogy of L'avventura, L'eclisse, and Il deserto rosso, Antonioni's acute sensibility struggled to achieve the mastery that has won him a secure place in film history. Chatman's study is the only complete account of Antonioni's work available in English. Its novel visual approach to the films while attract not only film scholars but also readers interested in painting and architecture—both important elements of Antonioni's work.

Author: Michelangelo Antonioni
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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Author: Laura Rascaroli
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838714421
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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This collection of new essays by leading film scholarsaddresses Michelangelo Antonionias apre-eminent figure in European art cinema, explores his continuing influence and legacy, and engages with his ability to both interpret and shape ideas of modernity and modern cinema.

Author: Wim Wenders
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571200764
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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Beyond The Clouds was Michaelangelo Antonioni's first film for 15 years, due to a stroke which left him bereft of speech. Director Wim Wender's account tells of how he helped bring Antonioni's final film into being.

Author: William Arrowsmith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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In his analysis of a scene in La notte, for instance, Arrowsmith proposes how the composition of shots expresses the meaning. Noting how the actress portraying a nymphomaniac is framed next to expanses of wall, Arrowsmith writes, "What the nymphomaniac wants to shut out is any knowledge of the blank immensity ... that we see exteriorized as she stands against the absolutely clinical white blankness of the wall, her own emptiness projected as the emptiness around her, threatening her."

Author: Sam Rohdie
Publisher: British Film Institute
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : it
Pages : 232

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