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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521599601

ISBN-139780521599603

eBay Product ID (ePID)247131

Product Key Features

Number of Pages300 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameVisconti : Explorations of Beauty and Decay

SubjectMedia Studies

Publication Year1998

TypeTextbook

AuthorHenry Bacon

Subject AreaSocial Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN97-019635

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal791.43/0233/092

Table Of ContentIntroduction; 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.

SynopsisIn this study, the first to examine Luchino Visconti's entire works, Henry Bacon examines the films of one of Italy's pre-eminent filmmakers. 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., In this study, the first to consider Luchino Visconti's entire oeuvre, Henry Bacon examines the films of one of Italy's preeminent 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPN1998.3.V57 B34 199