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Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema

Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema

McElhaney, Joe

Hardcover

Series: Queer Screens

Art Criticism & TheoryFilm & Video ArtIndividual Artists

ISBN10: 0814348262
ISBN13: 9780814348260
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, Joe McElhaney situates Visconti's films as privileged and deeply expressive instances of a trope that McElhaney identifies as the cinema of fabric a reoccurrence in film in which textiles-clothing, curtains, tablecloths, bedsheets-determine the filming process. An Italian neorealist, Visconti emerges out of a movement immediately following WWII wherein fabric assumes crucial functions, yet Visconti's use of fabric surpasses his colleagues in many ways, including its fluid, multifaceted articulations of space and time. Visconti's homosexuality is central to this theory in that it assumes metaphoric potential in addressing forbidden sexual desires that are made visible in the films. Visconti's cinema of fabric gives voice to desires not simply for human bodies draped in fabric but also for entire environments, a world of the senses in which fabric becomes a crucial method for giving form to such desires.

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