Visconti
Explorations of Beauty and Decay

The first thorough study of the Italian filmmaker, Luchino Visconti.

Henry Bacon (Author)

9780521599603, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 March 1998

300 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Films, cinema [APF]