Visconti
Subtitle: Explorations of Beauty and Decay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780521599603
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Films, cinema; Performing Arts; Film & Video - Direction & Production; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Media Studies; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Performing Arts-Film & Video - Direction & Production; Social Science-Media Studies; Visconti, Luchino, --1906-1976--Criticism and; Visconti, Luchino,--1906-1976--Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; 1906-1976; Visconti, Luchino,
First sentence: introduced him to film director Jean Renoir and his colleagues, all of whom were members of the Popular Front or were at least sympathetic to it. The time was propitious: the Popular Front had just won a major election victory - although the sense of optimism it generated would soon dissipate as the new government turned out to be ineffective and down-right reactionary in its cultural policy.