Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art

Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art
ISBN-10
9462980535
ISBN-13
9789462980532
Pages
390
Language
English
Published
2018-05-15
Author
Ivo Blom

Description

In this book, Ivo Blom offers unique insights into the visual vocabulary of Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti (1906-76), whose cinematic masterpieces include canonical works like Obsession, The Earth Trembles, and The Leopard. Meticulously examining Visconti's use of European art in his set and costume design, Reframing Luchino Visconti also investigates his cinematography in terms of staging, framing, and mirroring, among other aspects, offering valuable contextualization for the optical splendor in Visconti's films and revealing their close ties to the other visual arts.