L'Avventura

by Seymour Chatman

Book Overview

In 1960 two Italian films achieved international acclaim and box office success. These films were frequently compared because of the themes and techniques they had in common, among them their defiance of conventional structure and their indictment of postwar Italy's miraculous economic recovery, which they exposed as empty materialism. The similarities between the two films--Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura--are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813513359
• ISBN13: 9780813513355
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.0"