{"product_id":"luchino-visconti-and-the-fabric-of-cinema-paperback","title":"Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe McElhaney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLuchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, Joe McElhaney situates Visconti's films as privileged and deeply expressive instances of a trope that McElhaney identifies as the cinema of fabric: a reoccurrence in film in which textiles-clothing, curtains, tablecloths, bedsheets-determine the filming process. An Italian neorealist, Visconti emerges out of a movement immediately following WWII wherein fabric assumes crucial functions, yet Visconti's use of fabric surpasses his colleagues in many ways, including its fluid, multifaceted articulations of space and time. Visconti's homosexuality is central to this theory in that it assumes metaphoric potential in addressing forbidden sexual desires that are made visible in the films. Visconti's cinema of fabric gives voice to desires not simply for human bodies draped in fabric but also for entire environments, a world of the senses in which fabric becomes a crucial method for giving form to such desires. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcElhaney examines Visconti's neorealist origins in \u003ci\u003eOssessione\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa terra trema\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRocco and His Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e, particularly through fabric's function within literary realism and naturalism. Neorealist revisionism through the extravagant drapings of the diva film is examined in \u003ci\u003eBellissima\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSenso\u003c\/i\u003e whereas \u003ci\u003eWhite Nights\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger \u003c\/i\u003eare examined for the theatricalizing through fabric of their literary sources. Visconti's interest in German culture vis-à-vis \u003ci\u003eThe Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLudwig\u003c\/i\u003e, is articulated through a complex intertwining of fabric, aesthetics, politics, and transgressive sexual desire. Finally, Visconti's final two films, \u003ci\u003eConversation Piece\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Innocent\u003c\/i\u003e, assess through fabric both the origins of Italian fascism and the political tensions contemporaneous with the films' productions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFabric in Visconti is often tied to the aesthetic impulse itself in a world of visionaries attempting to dominate their surrounding environments and where a single piece of fabric may come to represent the raw material for creation. This book will tantalize any reader with a keen eye and strong interest in film and queer studies.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe McElhaney is professor of film studies at Hunter College\/City University of New York. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press, 2009), \u003ci\u003eAlbert Maysles, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Fritz Lang\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published numerous essays on European, Asian, and American cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457836368125,"sku":"9780814343081","price":71.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/OWt3QmlTc3pvditjaUk3L0VQN3V4QT09.webp?v=1777248481","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/luchino-visconti-and-the-fabric-of-cinema-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}