Michelangelo red Antonioni blue : eight reflections on cinema / Murray Pomerance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antonioni, Michelangelo--Criticism and interpretation.

Antonioni, Michelangelo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Beyond the clouds

Identification of a woman

The Red Desert

The dangerous thread of things

The mystery of Oberwald

Zabriskie Point

The passenger

Blow-up.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613291783

9781283291781

1283291789

9780520948303

0520948300

OCLC:

756484687