With films like 'L'avventura', 'Red Desert' and 'Blow-Up' Michelangelo Antonioni cemented his reputation as the most innovative and artistic filmmaker of his generation. This book explores his life and career from his earliest documentaries to his later collaborations.
""It was precisely by photographing and enlarging the surface of the things around me that I sought to discover what was behind those things."" -- 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.
This short fiction anthology offers a more precise and extensive treatment of narrative technique than other books of its kind. Targeting the needs and interests of today's readers, the author uses down-to-earth language and builds on readers' familiarity with narrative devices in film, television, and other popular media to teach this new approach to literary analysis. While offering more technical depth, Chatman never overwhelms. He provides unusually clear and exact definitions of such terms as "characterization" and "point-of- view", along with many illustrations of how these techniques actually operate in short stories. His explanations and examples enable readers to read narratives with a new awareness of how they are constructed.
For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story- whatever the medium.