Hard clarity, vaporous ambiguity: the fusion of realism and modernism in Antonioni's early 1960s films

Title: Hard clarity, vaporous ambiguity: the fusion of realism and modernism in Antonioni's early 1960s films
Creator: Ford, Hamish
Relation: Senses of Cinema , Issue 74
Relation: http://sensesofcinema.com/2015/feature-articles/hard-clarity-vaporous-ambiguity-the-fusion-of-realism-and-modernism-in-antonionis-early-1960s-films-1/
Publisher: RMIT University
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: This article explores the ways in which Antonioni's work of the early 1960s constitutes a historically embedded, yet still radical cinema in which the filmmaker's famous modernism and a highly developed form of realism coexist in provocative and generative ways. Moving across interconnected analyses of select details from L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L'eclisse (1962), and Il deserto rosso (1964), the article argues that these films enfold the inherent dialectical tension of the realism/modernism relationship into an especially tight, impossible-to-unpack expression. The result is a proper cinematic encapsulation and response to contemporary history in the most immediately felt, critical and philosophical sense.
Subject: realism; modernism; Michelangelo Antonioni; film criticism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1330755
Identifier: uon:26471
Identifier: ISSN:1443-4059
Language: eng
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