Peter Brunette

Peter Brunette
BornSeptember 18, 1943
DiedJune 16, 2010(2010-06-16) (aged 66)
OccupationJournalist
Film historian
Alma materDuquesne University
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Peter Brunette (September 18, 1943 – June 16, 2010) was a film critic and film historian who taught Film Studies. During his long career he was as an instructor at the University of Maryland and at George Mason University, and finally at Wake Forest University starting in 2004 until his death in 2010.[1][2][3] He was the author of several books, including studies of Italian directors Roberto Rossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, and of Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai. Brunette’s last book was about Austrian director Michael Haneke, published in February 2010.[4]

Selected bibliography

  • Roberto Rossellini (Oxford, 1987)
  • (co-author) Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory (with David Wills), Princeton, 1989).
  • (co-editor) Deconstruction and the Visual Arts (with David Wills, Cambridge, 1994)
  • The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge, 1998)
  • Wong Kar-wai (Urbana and Chicago, 2005)
  • Michael Haneke (Urbana and Chicago, 2010)

Notes

  1. ^ Obituary The Hollywood Reporter; June 17, 2010.
  2. ^ Obituary Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2010, page AA6.
  3. ^ report, Staff (2010-06-16). "THR film critic Peter Brunette dies". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2026-03-16.
  4. ^ Walker, Cheryl (2010-03-03). "Film professor Peter Brunette studies the works of Oscar-nominated filmmaker". Wake Forest News. Retrieved 2026-03-16.

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