Peter Brunette

Peter Brunette
Brunette on CUNY TV's Cinema Then, Cinema Now (1987)
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

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. 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.

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)

Further reading

• "THR film critic Peter Brunette dies". The Hollywood Reporter. 16 June 2010.