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Antonioni: centenary essays
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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:53 authored by Laura Rascaroli, John David Rhodes?The cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) embodies – more than that of any other director – the substance of European art cinema. His intensely stylised, stylish, demanding and gratifying films continue to spark controversy and debate – and inspire intense allegiance. On the centenary of Antonioni's birth, this volume places his work in an expanded field in order to reassess his contribution and continued centrality to world cinema. The contributors to this volume argue for an understanding of his work in a variety of new contexts: transnational cinema; conceptual photography; intermediality; thing theory; ecological and climate change theory; rubbish theory; microhistorical urbanism; the theory of the picturesque; and the theory of style. The Antonioni that emerges across these essays is an artist profoundly engaged in formal experimentation and deeply embedded in the complexities of his cultural and historical moment, whose work, therefore, continues to offer itself as a rich resource for thinking through the contradictory conditions of late modernity in the twenty-first century.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Michelangelo Antonioni: Centenary EssaysISSN
9781844573844Publisher
BFI/Palgrave MacmillanPages
288.0Place of publication
LondonISBN
9781844573844Series
A BFI bookDepartment affiliated with
- English Publications
Notes
his is an edited book edited by Laura Rascaroli, John David RhodesFull text available
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Peer reviewed?
- Yes