Antonioni, Or, the Surface of the World

by Seymour Chatman

Book Overview

Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, Seymour Chatman argues, is narration by a kind of visual minimalism, by an intense concentration on the sheer appearance of things and a rejection of explanatory dialogue. Though traditional audiences have balked at the "opacity" of Antonioni's films, it is precisely their rendered surface that is so...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520053419
• ISBN13: 9780520053410
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"