Antonioni : centenary essays / edited by Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rascaroli, Laura, editor.

Rhodes, John David, 1969- editor.

British Film Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antonioni, Michelangelo--Criticism and interpretation.

Antonioni, Michelangelo.

Motion picture producers and directors--Italy.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2011.

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Contents:

Interstitial, pretentious, alienated, dead : Antonioni at 100 / Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes

Modernities

Identification of a city : Antonioni and Rome, 1940-62 / Jacopo Benci

Modernity, put into form : Blow-Up, objectuality, 1960s Antonioni / Laura Rascaroli

Revisiting Zabriskie point / Angelo Restivo

Reporter, soldier, detective, spy : watching The passenger / Robert S.C. Gordon

Aesthetics

"Making love on the shores of the River Po" : Antonioni's documentaries / Leonardo Quaresima

On L'avventura and the picturesque / Rosalind Galt

QUASI : Antonioni and participation in art/ Alexander García Düttmann

Face, body, voice, movement : Antonioni and actors / David Forgacs

Medium specifics

Blow-Up and the plurality of photography / Matilde Nardelli

Ten footnotes to a mystery / Francesco Casetti

Identification of a medium : Identificazione di una donna and the rise of commercial television in Italy / Michael Loren Siegel

Ecologies

Antonioni's waste management / Karl Schoonover

Antonioni's cinematic poetics of climate change / Karen Pinkus

Antonioni and the development of style / John David Rhodes.

Notes:

"A BFI book".

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index.

ISBN:

9781838711788

1838711783

9781838714420

1838714421

OCLC:

855693291