Visconti: Insights Into Flesh and Blood

by Alexander García Düttmann

Something needs to be changed-be it through the revolutionary overthrow of social conditions, the liberating force of passion, the contemplation and creation of works of art, or the exploration of an unresolved past. 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. Does Adorno not write: "The place of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757402
• ISBN13: 9780804757409
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"