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- Title: Death and Disremembering in Antonioni's Blow-up and Malerba's Salto Mortale
- Author : Italica
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 101 KB
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To dear friends and colleagues gone too soon, but never disremembered. The 1960s were years of extraordinary social, political, and artistic ferment, and in both the cinematic and literary realms many works appeared that reflect preoccupations of that era, among which Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-up (1966) and Luigi Malerba's novel Salto mortale (1968). In this essay these works are revisited in order to consider, first, how death is a thematic fulcrum upon which are supported and activated many of the elements that characterize the film and the novel, and, next, how the (impossible) goal of disremembering death infuses their storylines as well as the actions of their protagonists. Both the film and the novel were important in the development of new stylistic directions for their creators; Antonioni's in his move to locations outside of Italy and to films made in English, as well as his increasing use of color; Malerba's in his transition into a fully experimental and neoavantgarde idiom. And both works continue to tell us much about important aspects of the turbulent decade in which they were created.