Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
' ... a long-overdue review of an auteur too often dismissed or ignored.' David Martin-Jones, Film-Philosophy
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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. It places the films in the context of the director's ongoing social analysis of postwar Italy, and demonstrates how they depend on painterly abstraction for their expressive effects.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. L'avventura (1960); 2. La notte (1961); 3. L'eclisse (1962); 4. Red Desert (1964); 5. Blow-up (1966); 6. The Passenger (1975); Filmography.