Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema /
"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, bedsheet...
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| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
2021
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| Series: | Queer screens.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Cinema of Fabric, the Fabric of Cinema
- Unveiling
- Origins and Contexts: Mise-enScène
- Origins and Contexts: Editing
- 1. Interwoven
- Dirty Laundry
- Bursting at the Seams
- Knitting and Patching
- Bedding Down
- Exchanging
- Shredding
- The Man in the Trench Coat
- 2. The Diva, Draped
- Flowing, Unreeling
- A Constant Vision in Black
- Projected
- Unfurled
- 3. Tight Fits
- Bandages
- Fabric and Fog
- Tied Together
- Dressed for the Weather
- Overall
- 4. Classical
- Forms Behind the Curtain
- Red
- Soiled
- Covering Up
- Tightening
- 5. Decadent Threads
- Prelude: The Witch Burned Alive
- Historical Tapestries
- Flutterings
- Large Patterns
- Maternal Visions
- Child Labor
- Bringing Down the Curtain
- 6. Fading
- Beginnings and Endings
- Lifting the Veil
- Camouflage
- The White Angel
- Deceitful Disguises.
