Spaces and architecture: metaphysical scenarios and modernity in the trilogy of alienation of Michelangelo Antonioni (1960-1962).

Abstract

The trilogy of alienation is a treatise on Post-Modern man, whose growing homologation causes him to lose his identity in a communicative marasmus.The critical interpretation of Antonioni's work is often based on the disappearance of feelings, yet this overlooks the philosophical importance that the director attached to the spaces he used in his films, seeing them as mirrors of the social change brought about by the rampant rise of capitalism in Europe. Stadia, hospitals, houses and workplaces change, and Antonioni's images use these real spaces to represent and express the alteration with which he is concerned.