Emile de Antonio

Emile de Antonio (1919-December 16, 1989) was a director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political or social events circa 1960s - 1980s. He was born in 1919 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Harvard with John F. Kennedy and would later go on to make a film about Kennedy's assassination called Rush to Judgment. After serving in the military during World War II, de Antonio frequented the art crowd, often associating with such pop artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, in whose film Drink de Antonio appears. De Antonio chronicled this art scene in his documentary Painters Painting (1972). Image File history File links Emile de Antonio, black and white, small http://www. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Scranton Electric Building, seen from the side. ... Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Order: 35th President Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson Term of office: January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 Preceded by: Dwight D. Eisenhower Succeeded by: Lyndon B. Johnson Date of birth: May 29, 1917 Place of birth: Brookline, Massachusetts Date of death: November 22, 1963 Place of death: Dallas, Texas First... Rush to Judgment is the title of a book written by Mark Lane and published not long after the JFK assassination. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945. ... Jasper Johns, Jr. ... Robert Rauschenberg is a painter, sculptor, and graphic artist known for helping to redefine American art in the 1950s and 60s, providing an alternative to the then-dominant aesthetic of Abstract Expressionism. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American painter, film-maker, publisher, and a major figure in the pop art movement. ... Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

In 1959 de Antonio developed G-String Productions in order to distribute the Beat Generation film Pull My Daisy. It was at this time that de Antonio discovered filmmaking. His first film, Point of Order, a compilation film made in 1964, regards Joseph McCarthy and the Army-McCarthy hearings. 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: This is... Pull My Daisy is a 1958 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and later of the Republican Party. ...

De Antonio went on to make many politically motivated films that attracted a substantial amount of controversy and also tended to align himself with Marxist thought. Most, if not all, of his films criticize aspects of American culture or politics or reflect a certain degree of political dissension, because of which, along with his Marxist affiliation, the FBI documented 10,000 pages of de Antonio's activities. Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

Filmography

• Point of Order (1964)
• Rush to Judgment (1967)
• America Is Hard to See (1968)
• In the Year of the Pig (1968)
• Milhouse: A White Comedy (1971)
• Painters Painting (1972)
• McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter (1975)
• Underground (1976)
• In the King of Prussia (1982)
• Mr. Hoover and I (1989)

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Further reading

• Kellner, Douglas and Dan Streible, eds., Emile de Antonio: A Reader (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
• Lewis, Randolph. Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America (Madison, WI and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000).

External links

• [1] An interview with Emile de Antonio conducted by Bruce Jackson
• [2] Emile de Antonio's IMDB page