The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge Film Classics)

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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.

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Perfect Antonioni primer.......2006-03-10

Quite simply, this book is the perfect starting point for someone trying to understand the often-confusing and richly layered and textured films of Michelangelo Antonioni. Brunette devotes a chapter each to six of Antonioni's signature films: "L'avventura", "La notte", "L'eclisse", "Red Desert", "Blow-Up", and "The Passenger". While this list is far from comprehensive, it gives a very thorough analysis of the "classic Antonioni". Even those familiar with Antonioni will find this book to be very useful. An excellent addition to any film-lover's library, no matter if s/he is a novice or a film professor. Also look for Brunette on the commentary track of the "Blow-Up" DVD.

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Michelangelo Antonioni
Seymour Chatman , and Paul Duncan
Manufacturer: Taschen
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ASIN: 3822830895

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introduction.......2004-10-20

Michelangelo Antonioni needs no introduction.

What needs to be introduced here, is this excellent book by German editor Taschen. Taschen's extensive series on art-subjects all have the same characteristics: a great choice of pictures, very to-the-point comments, a well-reasoned lay out, and last but not least, a pretty modest price.

For instance, in the chapter on Antonioni's 1962-movie 'La notte' (= Italian for 'the night') the text in this book changes from black print on white sheet to white on black -- quite in style with Antonioni's strong visuals.

Another feature of this great Italian director is the minimal use of spoken words. Just watch and let your brains work, he tells us. So there's nothing left for me than to end my comments on this great book.

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great critical review
the best critical review of Antonioni's art

Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World
Seymour Chatman
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520053419

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great critical review.......2001-06-09

This book is a critical review of the movie career of Antionioni. It helped me to understand the Great Teatrology of the Antonioni's work - L'Aventurra, La Notte, Eclipse and Red Desert much better. Director is researching the same themes of loneliness, impossibility of love and connections in the modern world full of dehumanizing technology. Landscapes and architecture, subtle variations of mood, breeze and movement ... and sadness.

I was amazed by Chatman's bibliography list. He'd read anything and everything there is to read about Antonioni. The books follow movies frame by frame with critical acclaim given to all aspects of Antonioni's art. Must read!!!

the best critical review of Antonioni's art.......1998-06-11

The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Angelo Restivo
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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ASIN: 0822327996

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The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes that transformed Italy during the sixties--described as the “economic miracle.” Angelo Restivo argues for a completely new understanding of that cinema as a negotiation between a national aesthetic tradition of realism and a nascent postmodern image culture.
Restivo studies numerous films of the period, focusing mainly on the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He finds that these auteurs’ films reworked the neorealist aesthetic developed in the 1940s and 1950s, explored issues brought to the fore by the subsequent consumer boom, and presaged developments central to both critical theory and the visual arts in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on the theories of Lacan, Zizek, Benjamin, Foucault, Jameson, and Deleuze, he shines new light on such films as Pasolini’s Accattone and Teorema, and Antonioni’s Red Desert and Blow-Up. Restivo’s model for understanding the relationship of the 1960s Italian art film to its cultural contexts also has implications that extend to the developing national cinemas of countries such as Brazil and Taiwan.
The Cinema of Economic Miracles will interest scholars and students in all areas of film studies, especially those studying theories of the image, national cinema theory, and Italian cinema, and to those engaged in poststructuralist theory, philosophy, and comparative literature.

The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema

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God on film.

The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema
Michelangelo Antonioni , and Marga Cottino-Jones
Manufacturer: Marsilio Publishers
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ASIN: 1568860129

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master filmmaker of RED DESERT, BLOW-UP et al

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God on film........1999-10-12

As with each viewing of an Antonioni film (sans "Zabrieske Point"), the essays in this book make the reader appreciate and "understand" the films of Antonioni more.

Antonioni is a genius, and what he has to say about the process of filmmaking is essential to anyone who wishes to make a respectable film.

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"Antonioni is one of the greatest living artists. As a director of film, his only living peer is Kurosawa, and . . . he is unmistakably the peer of the other great masters in all the arts." So spoke William Arrowsmith, the great critic and translator who, upon his death in 1992, left behind a series of unpublished lectures on the Italian master. Arrowsmith's lucid, creative, and passionately expressed lectures are an entertaining and immensely helpful guide through eight of Antonioni's most important films, including L'Avventura, Red Desert, Blow Up, and The Passenger. This book not only guides the reader through Antonioni's work, but also defends the cinema as an art as serious as any other.

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Celebrated critic William Arrowsmith did not sit on the fence when it came to Michelangelo Antonioni, the inspired Italian director of such classic films as L'avventura, Blow-up, and Eclipse. "Let me be clear about what I think," Arrowsmith told an audience assembled at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1977. "Antonioni is one of the greatest living artists, and as a director of film, his only living peer is Kurosawa; and he is unmistakably the peer of the other great masters in all the arts. As an innovator and manipulator of images, he is the peer of Joyce in the novel; in creating a genuine cinematic poetry, he stands on a level with Vale(accent)ry and Eliot in poetry proper; and that his artistic vision, while perhaps no greater than that of Fitzgerald or Eliot or Montale or Pavese, is at least as great and compelling." What was there about Antonioni's films that ignited such a response in Arrowsmith, and that continues to move, inspire, entrance and occasionally enrage film lovers today? In Antonioni: Poet of Images, Arrowsmith's friend and colleague Ted Perry has brought together and edited eight remarkable essays, all but two never before published, in which the late critic confronts the Antonioni oeuvre through a film-by-film examination of his best known work, from 1956's Il grido, to L'avventura, La notte, Eclipse, Red Desert, Blow-Up, and Zabriskie Point, concluding with 1975's The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider. Originally presented as lectures, these seminal essays brilliantly illuminate what these films mean to us, and why. A renowned literary critic and classicist, Arrowsmith traces with matchless clarity the intellectual roots of Antonioni's uncompromising vision. But Arrowsmith also illuminates the more technical and cinematic aspects of Antonioni's work, how the movement of the camera or the use of space enhanced the director's ability to find and create memorable images. In his analysis of a scene in La notte, for instance, Arrowsmith proposes how the composition of shots expresses the meaning. Noting how the actress portraying a nymphomaniac is framed next to expanses of wall, Arrowsmith writes, "What the nymphomaniac wants to shut out is any knowledge of the blank immensity...that we see exteriorized as she stands against the absolutely clinical white blankness of the wall, her own emptiness projected as the emptiness around her, threatening her." "When an artist like Antonioni is examined by a critic like Arrowsmith," Ted Perry writes in his memorable introduction,"We see again how art is connected to life, life to death, and both art and life to meaning." Enhanced by an appendix providing a brief synopsis of each of the eight films, and frequent translations of key bits of dialogue crucial to film-goers' understanding, Antonioni: Poet of Images captures the insight, sensitivity, and intelligence of one of our most distinguished critics, and celebrates the work of one of the world's most innovative film makers. It is essential reading for lovers of cinema and all admirers of Arrowsmith.

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Impressionistic, insightful, highly personal film criticism .......2001-01-14

William Arrowsmith (deceased) was a classical scholar and award-winning translator whose depth of knowledge, keen perception, and sheer talent as a writer are fully evident in Antonioni: Poet of Images. Arrowsmith's rich knowledge of Italian and classical literature informs his humanist (and often striking) impressions of the following Antonioni classics: Il grido, L'avventura, La notte, Eclipse, Red Desert, Blow-up, Zabriskie Point, and The Passenger. The book is edited by Professor Ted Perry and includes an appendix with synopses of the eight films listed above, notes, and "further reading."

Here's a critic worth reading.......2000-09-13

Arrowsmith's fascinatingly wide-scoped analysis of Antonioni's classic films is one of the best books of criticism I've ever read. You will not find a single line of cliche film criticism in this entire book, no jargon, just insight and more insight into the how and why of Antonioni's greatness based firmly on cultural and philosophical imperatives. No self-respecting Antonioni fan should miss out on the tonic of Arrowsmith's pivotal achievement.

Unfinished Business: Screenplays, Scenarios, and Ideas

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Unfinished Business: Screenplays, Scenarios, and Ideas
Michelangelo Antonioni , Carlo Di Carlo , and Giorgio Tinazzi
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ASIN: 156886051X

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Film Criticism. Screenplays. Internationally renowned director Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Aventura, Blow-Up, The Passenger), who has said that his thoughts "are almost always films" while his films are records of "thoughts in the making," here offers an eclectic collection of pieces ranging from short screenplays, to personal memoirs, to incisive meditations on the nature of cinema. The cumulative effect is a sort of montage of the workings of the author's mind, his thought-films and film-thoughts, projected simultaneously (in a clear and precise translation by Andrew Taylor) onto the white screen of the page. Antonioni, a seminal figure in modern cinema and one of the greatest Italian filmmakers, received the Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1995.

Antonioni, Bergman, Resnais;: [three monographs]

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Antonioni, Bergman, Resnais;: [three monographs]
Peter Cowie
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Eat Me: Love, Sex and the Art of Eating
Alexandra Antonioni
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My Time With Antonioni: The Diary of an Extraordinary Experience

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On psychology of movie making
Wonderful

My Time With Antonioni: The Diary of an Extraordinary Experience
Wim Wenders
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ASIN: 0571200761

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Wim Wenders's fascinating and often moving account of his experiences helping one of the masters of modern cinema make his final film.

In 1983 the world-renowned filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni suffered a physically debilitating stroke that left him severely aphasic. While mentally alert, he had, but for roughly a dozen words in Italian, lost the ability to speak and to write. He was able to draw--but only with his left hand. None of this, however, could extinguish his creative drive and he was determined to continue working. Eventually he managed to convince financiers that he was still capable of making a film as long as there was another director on the set to interpret his drawings and nods of the head. Thus in the spring of 1994, with the internationally acclaimed German filmmaker Wim Wenders signed on as co-director to calm concerned insurers, he began filming Beyond the Clouds.

My Time with Antonioni is Wenders's diary of filming with "the maestro." With insight and respect, he recounts the experiences--both good and bad--of striving to bring to fruition Antonioni's cinematic vision.

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On psychology of movie making.......2001-05-02

I enjoyed reading WW diary primarily for the insights to the personal struggles of the director working with somebody who is his master. Book is full of slight and not-so-slight overtones on the relationship between two men; sadness at the realization that "Beyond the Clouds" in all probability will be Antonioni's last movie; impossibility of filling in the personal artistic content for the other artist. I was amazed on the technique which Antonioni is unfortunately left with after his paralysis - finger gestures and a few disconnected utterances. I would recommend this book to a student of cinema; and also to the lover of biography genre.

Wonderful.......2001-04-04

A masterpeice of a movie, becomes a woderful account of the making of it. Diaries of the famous and creative, are the publics guilty pleasure of removed voyouerism. This book is just great.

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The series of biographical sketches published by Brainard's Musical World between 1877 and 1889 is notable for the diversity of the musicians profiled and for the entertaining personal information provided. This period witnessed the establishment of musical institutions and attitudes toward music that have shaped American music to the present day. The biographies present a cross-section of American musicians in the late 19th century, including singers, instrumentalists, writers, teachers, and composers. Among the musicians included are some of America's most prominent conductors, such as Theodore Thomas and Leopold Damrosch; composers, such as John Knowles Paine and George F. Root; writers, such as John S. Dwight and Amy Fay; teachers, such as William Mason and Erminia Rudersdorff; and performers, such as Emma Abbott and Maud Powell. Scores of less familiar musicians who were also instrumental in shaping America's music are included as well. Originally intended for general readers, the biographical sketches not only shed light on musical topics but also include personal information that is seldom found in a traditional dictionary and which speaks to the attitudes and concerns of the late 19th century society. This work will be of value to scholars and researchers of 19th-century American music and to those interested in the development of popular song. Entries are alphabetically arranged and include select bibliographies. A general bibliography and index are also included.

The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach: Who Is Sylvia (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, V. 69.)

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The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach: Who Is Sylvia (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, V. 69.)
Sylvia Olden Lee , and Elizabeth Nash
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Sylvia Olden Lee, America's first internationally renowned African-American classical vocal coach and a distinguished authority on Negro Spirituals, has worked with world-acclaimed singers-Paul Robeson, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle. She has been a pioneer in the musical field as the first African-American hired onto the staffs of the Metropolitan Opera and the Curtis Institute of Music.Her many contributions have been honored by the United Nations and the National Women's Hall of Fame.Mrs. Lee's memoirs are a fascinating two hundred year African-American saga chronicling the lives of the author and her ancestors.

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Who's Who in American Music: Classical

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Lenny's Little Chats: envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein.(Music; one person's thoughts on pre-concert lectures) : An article from: American Scholar

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Lenny's Little Chats: envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein.(Music; one person's thoughts on pre-concert lectures) : An article from: American Scholar
Sudip Bose
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Title: Lenny's Little Chats: envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein.(Music; one person's thoughts on pre-concert lectures)
Author: Sudip Bose
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