Visconti
Visconti
Explorations of Beauty and Decay
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In this study, the first to consider Luchino Visconti's entire works, Henry Bacon examines the films of one of Italy's pre-eminent filmmakers against the cultural, historical, and biographical contexts in which they were made. Through analysis of his achievements, Visconti also emerges as a twentieth-century inheritor and renewer of the nineteenth-century narrative tradition, especially that of the novel and the opera.
- First thorough study of Visconti's entire works
- Details Visconti's ability to manipulate literature into film
Product details
June 1998Paperback
9780521599603
300 pages
229 × 152 × 17 mm
0.44kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Visconti and neorealism:
- 1. Ossessione
- 2. The background, theory, and practice of neorealism
- 3. La Terra Trema
- 4. Bellissima
- 5. Our Women
- Part II. The Risorgimento Films:
- 6. Senso
- 7. The Leopard
- Part III. The Family and Modern Italian Society:
- 8. Visconti's two families
- 9. Rocco and his brothers
- 10. Sandra
- 11. The Witch Burned Alive
- 12. Conversation piece
- Part IV. Visconti and Germany:
- 13. Visconti, Thomas Mann and two aspects of Europe
- 14. The Job
- 15. The Damned
- 16. Death in Venice
- 17. Ludwig
- Part V. Visconti as an interpreter of European literature:
- 18. Experiencing literature and cinema
- 19. White Nights
- 20. The Stranger 21
- Remembrance of things past
- 22. The Innocent
- Filmography
- Stage productions
- Unrealised film projects
- Bibliography.
