Il Deserto Rosso

Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at Princeton University. He has written Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde (Oxford University Press, 1974, 1979, 2002), Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature (Columbia University Press, 1990), Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics (University of Texas Press, 1995), Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson (Oxford University Press, 2008), and The Cinema of Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2015). His edited volumes are Metaphors on Vision by Stan Brakhage (1963), Film Culture Reader (1970), The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Films in the Collection of Anthology Film Archives (1975), Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism (1978), and The Gaze of Orpheus and Other Literary Essays by Maurice Blanchot (1981).