Michelangelo Antonioni: Beyond Neorealism

A video essay exploring the aesthetic tenets advanced by the Italian neorealist movement and their influence upon Michelangelo Antonioni's exceptional contribution to the language of cinema.

RECOMMENDED VIEWING -

THE ALIENATION TRILOGY

L'Avventura - 1960
La Notte - 1961
L'Eclisse - 1962

BONUS : Red Desert - 1964

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRILOGY

Blow - Up - 1966
Zabriskie Point - 1970
The Passenger - 1975

THE NEOREALIST MOVEMENT

Obsessione - 1943
Rome, Open City - 1945
Paisan - 1946
Bicycle Thieves - 1948

1920s SOVIET CINEMA

Battleship Potempkin - 1925
The End of St. Petersburg - 1927

WORKS CITED / RECOMMENDED READING -

Zavattini, Cesare. "Some Ideas on the Cinema 1952." Sight and Sound 23.2 1952.

Antonioni, Michelangelo. "L’avventura: Cannes Statement 1960." 25 November 2014. Criterion. 11 May 2016 https://www.criterion.com/current/pos....

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/ne...

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/si...

Barthes, Roland. A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. Trans. Richard Howard. London: Penguin Books , 1977.

Beckett, Samuel. "Waiting For Godot - 1953 ." Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 2006.

Berlin, Normand. "The Tragic Pleasure of 'Waiting For Godot'." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot'. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism , 2008.

Brunette, Peter. Cambridge Film Classics: The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni . New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Cardullo, Bert. "What Is Neorealism? ." Bazin, André. André Bazin and Italian Neorealism. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011.

Chatman, Seymour. Antonioni Or, The Surface of the World. London: University of California Press, 1985.

Di Carlo, Carlo and Giorgio Tinazzi eds. "Franco Bronsi: A Talk with Michelangelo on his work". Michelangelo Antonioni - The Architecture of Vision.

Cameron Ian & Wood, Robin. Antonioni. London: Studio Vista, 1968.

Shiel, Mark. Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City. New York: Wallflower/ Columbia University Press, 2006.

Rhodie, Sam. Antonioni. London: BFI Publishing , 1990.

Rothko, Mark. The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

MUSIC -

Mstislav Rostropovich - Bach Cello Suites