Research Catalog

Title

Luchino Visconti and the fabric of cinema / Joe McElhaney.

Author

McElhaney, Joe, 1957-

Publication

• Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

viii, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"A central argument of this book is that the cinema of fabric arises throughout film history, from the cinema's origins to the present day, and across various genres, national cinemas, and film movements, as well as within the work of various auteurs. Visconti's origins as a director are within Italian neorealism, the most important film movement immediately following the Second World War. Moreover, the movement's influence has been ongoing, as though confirming Visconti's inflated statement that neorealism was "the beginning of the evolution of cinema as art." Within any full-scale attempt to account for neorealism, Visconti looms large. Fabric is central to neorealism, Visconti's use of it having its own implications within that movement. But these implications extend far beyond neorealism. I am thinking not only of cinema preceding and following Visconti but also of ways in which the literary and plastic arts (so thoroughly embedded in Visconti's practice) have given voice to the expressive and rhetorical possibilities of fabric"--

Series Statement

Queer screens

Uniform Title

Queer screens.

Subject

• Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976
• Motion picture producers and directors > History and criticism
• Motion picture producers and directors > Italy > Biography
• Gay motion picture producers and directors > Italy > Biography
• Gay motion picture producers and directors
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Italy

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Cinema of Fabric, the Fabric of Cinema -- Unveiling -- Origins and Contexts : Mise-en­Scène -- Origins and Contexts : Editing -- 1. Interwoven -- Dirty Laundry -- Bursting at the Seams -- Knitting and Patching -- Bedding Down -- Exchanging -- Shredding -- The Man in the Trench Coat -- 2. The Diva, Draped -- Flowing, Unreeling -- A Constant Vision in Black -- Projected -- Unfurled -- 3. Tight Fits -- Bandages -- Fabric and Fog -- Tied Together -- Dressed for the Weather -- Overall -- 4. Classical Forms -- Behind the Curtain -- Red -- Soiled -- Covering Up -- Tightening -- 5. Decadent Threads -- Prelude : The Witch Burned Alive -- Historical Tapestries -- Flutterings -- Large Patterns -- Maternal Visions -- Child Labor -- Bringing Down the Curtain -- 6. Fading -- Beginnings and Endings -- Lifting the Veil -- Camouflage -- The White Angel -- Deceitful Disguises.

Call Number

MWES (Visconti, L.) 21-1278

ISBN

• 9780814348260
• 0814348262
• 9780814343081
• 0814343082

LCCN

2020943902

OCLC

1200198270

Author

McElhaney, Joe, 1957- author.

Title

Luchino Visconti and the fabric of cinema / Joe McElhaney.

Publisher

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Queer screens

Queer screens.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version 9780814343098

Research Call Number

MWES (Visconti, L.) 21-1278