The Performance of Reality: Antonioni's <i>Tentato suicidio</i>

Authors

  • Laurence Simmons University of Auckland

Abstract

It is through its employment of complex 'structures of repetition' and its thematics of re-enactment and death, I want to suggest, that Antonioni's Tentato suicidio already contains within it a critique of the standard assumptions of the mimetic relationship between film and reality. A critique of the supposition that a sense of unmediated and unfettered access to the world anchors the film to the historical facticity of time and place.

Published

2016-02-20

How to Cite

Simmons, L. (2016). The Performance of Reality: Antonioni’s <i>Tentato suicidio</i>. Spunti E Ricerche, 23, 71–83. Retrieved from https://www.spuntiericerche.com/index.php/spuntiericerche/article/view/551

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