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Acknowledgments

Any writer of passages such as these gets by with a little help from his friends, but in this case I have received generous support, encouragement, and aid over more than two decades from a number of people who began by loving Antonioni as much as I do and came eventually to smile upon me far more than I deserved. While the flaws and faults herein are entirely my own, I do wish to express my sincerest gratitude to those who have illuminated my path: Patricia Albanese (Toronto), Enrica Antonioni (Italy), Stephen P. Arkle (Technicolor, Los Angeles), Michal Bardecki (Toronto), Nikesh Bhagat (Toronto), Judy Boals (New York), Joseph John Cooke Esq. M.B.E. (Lincoln, England), Terry and Bob Dale (Los Angeles), Brett Davidson (Margaret Herrick Library, Beverly Hills), David Desser (Collegeville, Pa.), Rufus Dickinson (Toronto), Eugene Di Sante (Toronto), Michael Doleschell (Toronto), the late Slobodan Drakulic (Toronto), Julie Duxbury (Lincoln, England), David Edgar (BFI, London), Kris Erickson (Toronto), Megan Follows (Toronto), Lester Friedman (Bethesda, Md.), Linda Gerth (The New Republic, Washington), Terry Gillin (Toronto), Fernando Gómez Hervis (Toronto), Assheton Gorton (Montgomery, Wales), Chris Graeber (Local 600 Publicists, Los Angeles), Don Guest (Tours, France), Paul Hadian (Toronto), Benjamin Halligan (Manchester), Daria Halprin (Marin County, Calif.), J. J. Hoffman (Los Angeles), Nathan Holmes (Chicago), Andrew Hunter (Toronto), Paul Jeremias (Toronto), Trevor Johnston (London), Daniel Kasman (New York), Glenn Kenny (New York), Anastasia Kerameos (BFI, London), Mark Kermode (Southampton), Leonard Klady (Los Angeles), Kristine Krueger, (Margaret Herrick Library, Beverly Hills), Bill Krohn (Los Angeles), Local 600 Publicists (Los Angeles), Mark Lubell (New York), Danny Lyon (Clintondale, N.Y.), Jill McConkey (University of Toronto Press, Toronto), Andrew McGovern (PhotoFest, New York), Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles), Tamara Micner (Google), Will Mills (Toronto), Janet Moat (BFI, London), Paul S. Moore (Toronto), Nigel Morris (Lincoln, England), Mike Munson (Technicolor, North Hollywood), Steven Muzzatti (Toronto), Hiro Narita (Petaluma, Calif.), Matt O’Casey (Manchester), Ronan O’Casey (Los Angeles), Bob Olson (Technicolor, North Hollywood), Christopher Porter (Nova Scotia), Taira Restar (Kentfield, Calif.), Ned Rifkin (The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.), Ken Robbins (Springs, N.Y.), Erik Rocca (New York), William Rothman (Miami), Bob Rubin (Tulsa), Don Snyder (Toronto), Vivian Sobchack (Los Angeles), Harrison Starr (Los Angeles), Alison Stawarz and John McAslan (John McAslan and Associates, London), Michael Sugar (Los Angeles), Richard Summers (Toronto), Dean Tavoularis (Los Angeles), Carol Tavris (Los Angeles), Jamie Thompson (Toronto), Matthew Thompson (Toronto), Charles Warren (Boston), Bruce Winstein (Chicago), and Joshua Yumibe (Dundee, Scotland).

Exceptionally gracious in contributing to my understanding of 35 mm color processes has been Richard Haines (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), an artist and scholar of astounding knowledge and a warm and patient teacher. Further, I have been touched by help far beyond the call of duty from Ned Comstock at the Cinema-Television Library of the University of Southern California and Jenny Romero at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills. And Beverly Walker (Los Angeles) has worked hard and eagerly on my behalf, even while suffering the flu, out of a respect and love for Michelangelo which are undying. To James Daley (Wheaton, Ill.) for his assistance with photographic reproduction, and for still being there after all these years, my heartfelt thanks. My assistant Ian Dahlman was a whirling dervish of a researcher, or at least a supersleuth, able to leap tall reference stacks in a single bound and never less than a perfectly cheery ideal reader. And my friend and colleague John Oslansky (Perugia) has been an inspiration for the thoughts contained here.

To Mary Francis, Suzanne Knott, Caroline Knapp, Kalicia Pivirotto, and Eric Schmidt at University of California Press go my sincere thanks for a sweet collaboration. And to Nellie Perret and Ariel Pomerance, who have made many helpful comments and been my support through thick and thin, not to say the craft for my craft, a special thank you for keeping home lights burning.

Toronto, Los Angeles, Dooagh, Dublin, London October 2010