num_pages: 160
description: A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel about a middle-aged man (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. The book analyzes its cultural impact and provides a vivid portrait of the director an ardent Communist and grand provocateur.Will Aitken's novels include Realia and Terre Haute . Arsenal's Queer Film Classics series cover some of the most important and influential films about and by LGBTQ people.
language: English
title: Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press