This collection of new essays by leading film scholarsaddresses Michelangelo Antonionias apre-eminent figure in European art cinema, explores his continuing influence and legacy, and engages with his ability to both interpret and shape ideas of modernity and modern cinema.

Interstitial, Pretentious, Alienated, Dead: Antonioni at 100/Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes.- Modernities.- Identification of a City: Antonioni and Rome, 1940-1962/Jacopo Benci.- Modernity, Put into Form: Blow-Up, Objectuality, 1960s Antonioni/Laura Rascaroli.- Revisiting Zabriskie Point/Angelo Restivo.- Reporter, Soldier, Detective, Spy: Watching The Passenger/Robert S. C. Gordon.- Aesthetics.- 'Making Love on the Shores of the River Po': Antonioni's Documentaries/Leonardo Quaresima.- On L'avventura and the picturesque/Rosalind Galt.- Quasi: Antonioni and Participation in Art/Alexander García Düttmann.- Face, Body, Voice, Movement: Antonioni and Actors/David Forgacs.- Medium Specifics.- Blow-up and the Plurality of Photography/Matilde Nardelli.- Ten Footnotes To A Mystery/Francesco Casetti.- Identification of a Medium: Identificazione di una donna and the Rise of Commercial Television in Italy/Michael Siegel.- Ecologies.- Antonioni's Waste Management/Karl Schoonover.- Antonioni's Cinematic Poetics of Climate Change/Karen Pinkus.- Antonioni and the Development of Style/John David Rhodes.- Index.