Antonioni (Taschen Basic Film)

Description

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.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; and, a chronology, filmography, and bibliography.

Author description

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.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9783822830307
• Publisher : Taschen GmbH
• Imprint : Taschen GmbH
• Publication date : January 2008
• Dimensions : 185mm X 230mm X 8mm
• Produced in : Germany
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : illustrations
• Pages : 96
• Dewey classification : 791.4302330924
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Seymour Chatman