Editing Michelangelo Antonioni (section)

=== Early film work ===
In 1942, Antonioni co-wrote ''[[A Pilot Returns]]'' with [[Roberto Rossellini]] and worked as assistant director on Enrico Fulchignoni's ''I due Foscari''. In 1943, he travelled to France to assist [[Marcel Carné]] on ''[[Les visiteurs du soir]]'' and began a series of short films with ''[[Gente del Po]]'' (1943), a story of poor fishermen of the [[Po valley]]. When Rome was liberated by the Allies, the film stock was transferred to the Fascist "[[Italian Social Republic|Republic of Salò]]" and could not be recovered and edited until 1947. The complete footage was never retrieved. These films were [[Italian neorealism|neorealist]] semi-documentary studies of the lives of working-class people.{{sfn|Cook|2004|p=535}}

However, Antonioni's first feature ''[[Story of a Love Affair|Cronaca di un amore]]'' (''Story of a Love Affair'', 1950) broke away from neorealism by depicting the middle classes. He continued to do so in a series of other films: ''[[I vinti]]'' (''The Vanquished'', 1952), a trio of stories, each set in a different country (France, Italy and England), about juvenile delinquency; ''[[La signora senza camelie]]'' (''The Lady Without Camellias'', 1953) about a young film star and her fall from grace; and ''[[Le amiche]]'' (''The Girlfriends'', 1955) about middle-class women in Turin. ''[[Il grido]]'' (''The Outcry'', 1957) was a return to working class stories, depicting a factory worker and his daughter. Each of these stories is about [[social alienation]].{{sfn|Cook|2004|p=535}}