Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema

by Joe Mcelhaney

Book Overview

Unveils the metaphoric and theoretical possibilities of fabric in the films of Luchino Visconti.

In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814343082
• ISBN13: 9780814343081
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"