The films of Michelangelo Antonioni / Peter Brunette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brunette, Peter, author.

Series:

Cambridge film classics.

Cambridge film classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antonioni, Michelangelo--Criticism and interpretation.

Antonioni, Michelangelo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Summary:

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 colour. 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. Rather than emphasizing the stress and alienation of Antonioni's characters, in this book 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 also how they are formal exercises that depend on painterly abstraction for their expressive effects.

Contents:

Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

List of contributors

Introduction

Liberal constraints on private power?: reflections on the origins and rationale of access regulation

Liberalism and free speech

Foundations and limits of freedom of the press

Why the state?

Practices of toleration

Access in a post-social responsibility age

Who decides?

Four criticisms of press ethics

Political communication systems and democratic values

Mass communications policy: where we are and where we should be going

Content regulation reconsidered

The rationale of public regulation of the media

The role of a free press in strengthening democracy

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Filmography: p. 147-153.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181) and index.

ISBN:

9781139085526

1139085522

9780511624346

0511624344

OCLC:

927198852

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07597 hdl