The Films Of Michelangelo Antonioni (cambridge Film Classics)

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 color. 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. "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 color. 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 Antonioni's maturity. Rather than emphasizing the angst and alienation of Antonioni's characters, 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 how they depend on painterly abstraction for their expressive effects."--Jacket The Cambridge Film Classics series provides a forum for the revisionist studies of the classic works of the cinematic canon from the perspective of the "new auteurism", which recognizes that films emerge from a complex interaction of bureaucratic, technological, intellectual, cultural, and personal forces. Each volume provides a general introduction to the life and work of a particular director, followed by critical essays on several of the director's most important films, and a filmography. 01.0_pp_i_viii_Frontmatter 1 02.0_pp_ix_x_Contents 9 03.0_pp_xi_xii_List_of_Illustrations 11 04.0_pp_xiii_xiv_Acknowledgments 13 05.0_pp_1_27_Introduction 15 06.0_pp_28_51_Lavventura_1960 42 07.0_pp_52_72_La_notte_1961 66 08.0_pp_73_89_Leclisse_1962 87 09.0_pp_90_108_Red_Desert_1964 104 10.0_pp_109_126_Blow-up_1966 123 11.0_pp_127_146_The_Passenger_1975 141 12.0_pp_147_154_Filmography 161 13.0_pp_155_180_Notes 169 14.0_pp_181_182_Selected_Bibliography 195 15.0_pp_183_186_Index 197 Peter Brunette. Filmography: P. 147-153. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 181) And Index.