Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue

Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue
Author: Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520948300

Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema’s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s—L’avventura, La Notte, L‘eclisse—are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni’s greatest works. Writing in an accessible style that evokes Antonioni’s expansive use of space, Pomerance discusses The Red Desert, Blow-Up, Professione: Reporter (The Passenger), Zabriskie Point, Identification of a Woman, The Mystery of Oberwald, Beyond the Clouds, and The Dangerous Thread of Things to analyze the director’s subtle and complex use of color. Infusing his open-ended inquiry with both scholarly and personal reflection, Pomerance evokes the full range of sensation, nuance, and equivocation that became Antonioni’s signature.

Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue

Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue
Author: Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2011
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780520266865

"Murray Pomerance's close readings of selected Antonioni works offer surprising and rich insights at every turn. With a critical approach deeply informed by appropriate invocations of modern thinkers, writers, and artists, Pomerance situates the films in their cultural moment, even as his sharp, illuminating attention to detail and nuance expresses his admiration for the monumental accomplishments of one of postwar cinema's most engaging if enigmatic directors. Pomerance is unsurpassed as an appreciative guide to one of the masters of the medium." R. Barton Palmer, author of Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
Author: Peter Brunette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1998-09-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780521389921

An analysis of the life and work of the Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni
Author: Seymour Chatman
Publisher: Taschen
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9783822830895

"Containing many illustrations from Michelangelo Antonioni's own archives, this text explores his life and career from his earliest documentaries to his latest collaborations"--Publisher's description.

Road Trip to Nowhere

Road Trip to Nowhere
Author: Jon Lewis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520343743

Introduction -- Road trips to a new Hollywood : Easy Rider and Zabriskie Point -- Christopher Jones does not want to be a movie star -- Four women in Hollywood : Jean Seberg, Jane Fonda, Dolores Hart and Barbara Loden -- Charles Manson's Hollywood -- Epilogue.

The Hollywood Renaissance

The Hollywood Renaissance
Author: Peter Krämer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501337882

In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a 'renaissance'. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and thematically challenging films were produced at the very centre of the American film industry, often (but by no means always) combining success at the box office with huge critical acclaim, both then and later. This collection brings together acknowledged experts on American cinema to examine thirteen key films from the years 1966 to 1974, starting with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a major studio release which was in effect exempted from Hollywood's Production Code and thus helped to liberate American filmmaking from (self-)censorship. Long-standing taboos to do with sex, violence, race relations, drugs, politics, religion and much else could now be broken, often in conjunction with extensive stylistic experimentation. Whereas most previous scholarship has examined these developments through the prism of auteurism, with its tight focus on film directors and their oeuvres, the contributors to this collection also carefully examine production histories and processes. In doing so they pay particular attention to the economic underpinnings and collaborative nature of filmmaking, the influence of European art cinema as well as of exploitation, experimental and underground films, and the connections between cinema and other media (notably publishing, music and theatre). Several chapters show how the innovations of the Hollywood Renaissance relate to further changes in American cinema from the mid-1970s onwards.

London's New Scene

London's New Scene
Author: Lisa Tickner
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1913107108

A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companies, the projection of “creative Britain” as a national brand—all nurtured and promoted the emergence of London as “a new capital of art.” Extensively illustrated and researched, this book offers an unprecedented, rich account of the social field that constituted the lively London scene of the 1960s. In clear, fluent prose, Tickner presents an innovative sequence of critical case studies, each of which explores a particular institution or event in the cultural life of London between 1962 and 1968. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of an exuberant decade in the history of British art.

The Italian Cinema Book

The Italian Cinema Book
Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1839020253

THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections: THE SILENT ERA (1895–22) THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA (1922–45) POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE (1945–59) THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA (1960–80) AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION (1981 TO THE PRESENT) NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA Acutely aware of the contemporary 'rethinking' of Italian cinema history, Peter Bondanella has brought together a diverse range of essays which represent the cutting edge of Italian film theory and criticism. This provocative collection will provide the film student, scholar or enthusiast with a comprehensive understanding of the major developments in what might be called twentieth-century Italy's greatest and most original art form.

Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema

Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema
Author: Gino Moliterno
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 751
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 153811948X

Italian cinema is now regarded as one of the great cinemas of the world. Historically, however, its fortunes have varied. Following a brief moment of glory in the early silent era, Italian cinema appeared to descend almost into irrelevance in the early1920s. A strong revival of the industry which gathered pace during the 1930s was abruptly truncated by the advent of World War II. The end of the war, however, initiated a renewal as films such as Roma città aperta (Rome Open City), Sciuscià (Shoeshine, 1946), and Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1948), flagbearers of what soon came to be known as Neorealism, attracted unprecedented international acclaim and a reputation that only continued to grow in the following years as Italian films were feted worldwide. Ironically, they were celebrated nowhere more than in the United States, where Italian films consistently garnered the lion's share of the Oscars, with Lina Wertmüller becoming the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Director award. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on major movements, directors, actors, actresses, film genres, producers, industry organizations and key films. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Italian Cinema.

Interpretation and Film Studies

Interpretation and Film Studies
Author: Phillip Novak
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3030447391

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies—that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this case by surveying what has been written about four historically important and well-known movies (D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East, Marcel Carné’s Port of Shadows, Mike Nichols’s The Graduate, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert), none of which has been the focus of sustained critical attention, and by exhaustively examining the kinds of work published in four influential film journals (Cinema Journal, Screen, Wide Angle, and Movie). The book goes on to argue for the value of the work of interpretation, illustrating this value through extended analyses of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and Christopher Nolan’s Memento, both of which thematize interpretation. Novak demonstrates the causes and consequences of reading poorly and the importance of reading well.