Visconti
Subtitle: insights into flesh and blood
By: Alexander García Düttmann ; translated by Robert Savage.
Contributors: Savage, Robert
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780804757409
Subjects: Visconti, Luchino, -- 1906-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Visconti.
Description: "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. Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood draws on aesthetics, film theory, and practical philosophy to propose an original interpretation of the melodramas of a great European director. In the encounter with Visconti's art, we come to see that something has changed already."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Originally published in German in 2006 under the title Visconti: Einsichten in Fleisch und Blut"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intention and aesthetic seriousness; title: In cinematic circles; title: Obstructive possibilities; or, Reality as utopia; title: Recognition of a change; title: Envoi; title: Afterword: on the genesis of Insights into flesh and blood.