Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America

By Randolph Lewis

Book Overview

Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was the most important political filmmaker in the United States during the Cold War. Director of such controversial films as Point of Order (1963), In the Year of the Pig... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299169146
• ISBN13: 9780299169145
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Breakthrough book in media studies--loved reading it!

It's easy to forget the importance of alternative media figures like de Antonio, but he was Michael Moore before there was Michael Moore (and he did it with an intellectual seriousness that MM can't touch). I read this book in a college class and was blown away: the author writes beautifully (how many academics do that?), he really brings the 60s and 70s alive as we read about Nixon, Ho, Weatherman, the Berrigans, and he shows the importance of using media creatively/politically for cultural critique. If this isn't relevant in the age of Bush, when every media appearance is stage managed like a puppet show, I don't know what is. A must read for anyone interested in the noisy intersection of media and politics. Well done.

de Antonio Rules!

I had never even heard of de Antonio, but Randolph Lewis has now sparked my interest in his films, and in American documentary filmmaking more generally. A truly masterful work!