Visconti
Subtitle: Explorations of Beauty and Decay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780521590570
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Films, cinema; Mass Media - General; Individual Directors And Producers; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Visconti, Luchino,; Cinema/Film: Book; Media Studies; Film & Video - Direction & Production; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Visconti, Luchino; Visconti, Luchino,--1906-1976--Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; 1906-1976
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.