Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema

by Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520266862
• ISBN13: 9780520266865
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"