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Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema / Joe McElhaney.

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"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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: McElhaney, Joe, 1957- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Series:Queer screens.
Subjects:
Visconti, Luchino, > 1906-1976.
Motion picture producers and directors > Italy.
Gay motion picture producers and directors > Italy.
Gay motion picture producers and directors.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Italy.
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.

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