Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue – Eight Reflections on Cinema - Hardcover

Pomerance, Murray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520258703 ISBN 13: 9780520258709

Publisher: University of California Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"Superb, one-of-a-kind volume... required reading for anyone interested in Antonioni's life and work." -- W. W. Dixon Choice 20110629

About the Author:

Murray Pomerance is Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at Ryerson University. He is the author of Johnny Depp Starts Here, An Eye for Hitchcock, and Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory, among many books.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0520258703
• ISBN 13: 9780520258709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304