Antonioni and the aesthetics of impurity : remaking the image in the 1960s / Matilde Nardelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nardelli, Matilde, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antonioni, Michelangelo--Criticism and interpretation.

Antonioni, Michelangelo.

Antonioni, Michelangelo-Criticism and interpretation.

Motion picture producers and directors--Italy.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion picture producers and directors-Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key in ushering in its 'new' or 'modern' incarnation around 1960. 'Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity' offers a radical rethinking of the director's work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity

1 Impure Pictoriality: The Matter of Painting

2 Performing the Mind: Interiority, Television and Artificial Brains

3 (Quietly) Noisy Images: Sonic Landscapes, Audiotape and ‘the New Musicality’

4 The ‘Image-World’ and the Reality of Photography

5 Uncinematic Provocations and the Pursuit of Boredom

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-9057-3

1-4744-4406-7

OCLC:

1306538484