Antonioni

Poetry and motion: the film art of Michelangelo Antonioni


With L`Avventura he piqued the world`s curiosity. With La Notte and L`Eclisse, he mystified audiences and broke hearts. With Red Desert, his first color picture, he blurred all the lines between art, cinema, and still photography. Continuing his creative explosion with Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, The Passenger, and The Identification of a Woman, Michelangelo Antonioni cemented his reputation as the most innovative and artistic filmmaker of his generation. With a plethora of illustrations, drawn in part from Antonioni`s own archives, this book explores his life and career from his earliest documentaries to his latest collaborations.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Film series features:
  • an introduction to the director and coverage of every film he or she directed
  • over 100 scenes from the movies, shots of the director at work, and film posters, with explanatory captions
  • rare images from around the world
  • informative text by acknowledged experts
  • a chronology, filmography, and bibliography


The author:
Seymour Chatman is Professor Emeritus of rhetoric and film studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has widely published books and articles on on cinema, narratology, film adaptation, parody, and the theory of literature. 

Antonioni

Antonioni

Seymour Chatman
Softcover, flaps, 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages, $ 9.99
ISBN 978-3-8228-3030-7
Edition: English
Availability: In Stock
  • Reviews
"Existen cineastas que explotan, más que otros, la prolijidad en escena y para los que es inevitable crear un libro de fotografías como este. (...) Fue además agudamente enigmático en sus planteamientos y el libro editado por Paul Duncan para TASCHEN ahonda en este aspecto a través de un estudio minucioso de entrevistas, declaraciones y escritos del propio autor." Revista Godard, Lima, Peru