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The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema
Contributor(s): Antonioni, Michelangelo (Author), Di Carlo, Carlo (Editor), Tinazzi, Giorgio (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0226021149     ISBN-13: 9780226021140
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Published: November 2007
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Annotation: "A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality." Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of "Blow-Up" and "L'Avventura", who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in "The Architecture of Vision".
Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the director's unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.
""The Architecture of Vision" provides a filmmaker's absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonioni's comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book."--"Publishers Weekly"
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"[Antonioni's] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness."--"Film Quarterly"
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"This valuable resource offers entree to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances."--"Library Journal"
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2007016103
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.12" W x 8.56" L (1.21 lbs) 430 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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"A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality." Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and L'Avventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.

Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the director's unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.

"The Architecture of Vision provides a filmmaker's absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonioni's comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book."--Publishers Weekly

" Antonioni's] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness."--Film Quarterly

"This valuable resource offers entr e to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances."--Library Journal
 
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