Peter Brunette

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

Peter Brunette (September 18, 1943 – June 16, 2010) was a film critic and film historian. He was the author of several books, including biographies of Italian directors Roberto Rossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. Brunette’s last completed work was a book about Austrian director Michael Haneke, published in February 2010.

Selected bibliography

• (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)

Further reading

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