Research Catalog

Title

Visconti : insights into flesh and blood / Alexander García Düttmann ; translated from the German by Robert Savage.

Author

García Düttmann, Alexander

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Savage, Robert (Robert Ian)

Description

152 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Luchino Visconti's films are models for the failure of such attempts. They show that this failure arises whenever people cling to possibilities that stand opposed to the reality of their lives. Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood draws on aesthetics, film theory, and practical philosophy to propose an original interpretation of the melodramas of a great European director. In the encounter with Visconti's art, we come to see that something has changed already."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Visconti. English

Alternative Title

Visconti.

Subject

Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Originally published in German in 2006 under the title Visconti: Einsichten in Fleisch und Blut"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-146) and index.
• Includes filmography: p. [147]-148.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Intention and aesthetic seriousness -- In cinematic circles -- Obstructive possibilities; or, Reality as utopia -- Recognition of a change -- Envoi -- Afterword: On the genesis of Insights into flesh and blood.

ISBN

• 9780804757409 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804757402 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008022409

OCLC

• 225876099
• SCSB-11045850

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library