Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and DecayCambridge University Press, 28.3.1998 - 285 sivua 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. |
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Introduction | 1 |
VISCONTI AND NEOREALISM | 6 |
The making and reception of Ossessione | 14 |
Melodramatic realism | 16 |
Background theory and practice of neorealism | 25 |
Theory and ideals | 27 |
La terra trema | 32 |
Fate and alteration | 36 |
Conversation Piece | 132 |
VISCONTI AND GERMANY | 139 |
The Job | 142 |
The Damned | 144 |
A descent to hell | 148 |
Death in Venice | 155 |
Transforming literary into audiovisual splendor | 161 |
Ludwig | 172 |
Bellissima | 51 |
Illusions of art and reality | 54 |
Our Women | 58 |
THE RISORGIMENTO FILMS | 60 |
The formation of Senso | 63 |
Risorgimento as history and mythology | 67 |
Melodrama as criticism of history | 71 |
The Leopard | 82 |
Stagnation and change | 86 |
Toward a novelistic cinema | 90 |
THE FAMILY AND MODERN ITALIAN SOCIETY | 98 |
Rocco and His Brothers | 102 |
Social and literary background | 104 |
Five alternatives for five brothers | 107 |
Melodrama as nostalgia and a social commentary | 115 |
Sandra | 119 |
Style and themes | 125 |
The Witch Burned Alive | 130 |
A film about Ludwig II | 174 |
Thematic concerns and narrative structure | 179 |
Audiovisual style | 184 |
VISCONTI AS AN INTERPRETER OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE | 188 |
The problems of adapting | 193 |
White Nights | 197 |
The Stranger | 202 |
The Stranger as film and literature | 204 |
Remembrance of Things Past | 208 |
The Innocent | 211 |
The power of adapting | 215 |
Notes | 221 |
Filmography | 247 |
Stage Productions | 261 |
Unrealized Film Projects | 271 |
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Aci Trezza actors adaptation aesthetic appears Aristarco artist Aschenbach audience beauty become Bragana brother camera characters cinema Costumes create critical cultural Death in Venice depicted diegetic Director of Photography Enrico Medioli Fascist feelings filmmaker flashback Franco Mannino Franz Germany Gianni Gino Giovanna Giuseppe Giuseppe De Santis Helmut Berger historical Ibid idea ideals Ishaghpour Italian Italy Konrad La terra trema Leopard literary Livia Luchino Visconti Ludwig Maddalena Mann Mann's Mario Mario Serandrei Medioli melodrama metaphor Micciché Milan mother Nadia narration narrative Natalia neorealism neorealist novel novella Nowell-Smith Ntoni opera Ossessione performance Piero Tosi play plot political prince production protagonist Proust realism reality relationship Renoir Risorgimento Rocco role Rome Rondolino Sandra scene Screen script seen sense Senso Servadio shot Simone social society Sophie Stirling story Suso Cecchi D'Amico Tadzio Tancredi terra trema theme Tullio turns Ussoni Valastros Verga Visconti's films Wagner