This is an initial batch of readings regarding modernist cinema and (European) art films. Specifically theoretical and historical readings are accompanied by specific analyses and readings of the films we are screening in class. We are taking on Antonioni as our object of analysis and the readings will relate to L'avventura, Il Deserto Rosso and Blow Up.
Bordwell, "The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice" from Poetics of Cinema
Sitney, "L'avventura" excerpt from Vital Crises in Italian Cinema
Marcus, "Antonioni's Red Desert: Abstraction as the Guiding Idea" from Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism
Godard, "Jean-Luc Godard Interviews Michelangelo Antonioni" from Cahiers du Cinema #160, November 1964
Chatman, "Blow Up: Questioning the Seen, Questioning the Scene" from Antonioni or, The Surface of the World
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