Peter Brunette

Peter Brunette (September 18, 1943 – June 16, 2010) was a film critic and film historian who taught Film Studies at Wake Forest University.^[1][2] 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.

Peter Brunette
Born	September 18, 1943 Richwood, West Virginia
Died	June 16, 2010(2010-06-16) (aged 66) Taormina, Sicily, Italy
Occupation	Journalist Film historian
Alma mater	Duquesne University University of Wisconsin–Madison

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)