Peter Brunette
Encyclopedia
Peter Brunette was a film critic and film historian. He was the author of several books, including biographies of Italian directors Roberto Rossellini
and Michelangelo Antonioni
. Brunette’s last completed work was a book about Austrian director Michael Haneke
, published in February 2010.
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...
and Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...
. Brunette’s last completed work was a book about Austrian director Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...
, published in February 2010.
Selected bibliography
- (co-author) Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory (with David WillsDavid Wills (writer)David Robert Wills is a noted translator of Jacques Derrida to include The Gift of Death, Right of Inspection, Counterpath, and The Animal That Therefore I Am...
), Princeton, 1989). - (co-editor) Deconstruction and the Visual Arts (with David Wills, Cambridge, 1994)