INTRODUCTION ISSUE 18

On the occasion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s centenary celebration, the 18^th issue of Cinemascope explores the complex relation between the art of the italian director and the mystery of reality, a realm inviting the spectator to get lost into the ambiguity of the image. All the essays of the current issue are completely absorbed by this dimension. The key words are: ambiguity, awkwardness, immersion, syndrome, transition. These are not definitions, but, above all, some ways to investigate a fleeting territory where the sense is never unique, but always fragmented and multiform. This ability to observe and penetrate the world produces surprising effects in the universe of Antonioni.

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ARTICLES

INTRODUCTION

O n the occasion of...

Blow-Up and the Kennedy Assassination Syndrome

by HENRY M. TAYLOR “Every time I see this, I...

Challenging Realism in the Early 1960s Films

by HAMISH FORD Cinema today should be tied to...

L’amorosa menzogna and ‘the Labour of Fiction’

by ROBERTO CAVALLINI   The greatest danger for...

Antonioni’s Cinema as Being-in-the-world

by WILLIAM C....

The Purposeful Awkwardness of Continuity Editing

by MARSHALL...