Visconti

His Life, His Films

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by Henry Bacon

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published March 1998, 304 pages, paper

ISBN 0521599601

A consideration of Visconti's entire work. Through analysis of his achievements, Visconti emerges as a 20th-century inheritor and renewer of the 19th-century narrative tradition, especially tht of the novel and the opera.

Table of Contents

Introduction; PART I; VISCONTI AND NEOREALISM; chapter 1; Ossessione; chapter 2; The Background, Theory, and Practice of Neorealism; chapter 3; La Terra Trema; chapter 4; Bellissima; chapter 5; Our Women; PART II; THE RISORGIMENTO FILMS; chapter 6; Senso; chapter 7; The Leopard; PART III; THE FAMILY AND MODERN ITALIAN SOCIETY; chapter 8; Visconti's Two Families; chapter 9; Rocco and his Brothers; chapter 10; Sandra; chaper 11; The Witch Burned Alive; chapter 12; Conversation Piece; PART IV; VISCONTI AND GERMANY; chapter 13; Visconti, Thomas Mann and Two Aspects of Europe; chapter 14; The Job; chapter 15; The Damned; chapter 16; Death in Venice; chapter 17; Ludwig; PART V; VISCONTI AS AN INTERPRETER OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE; chapter 18; Experiencing Literature and Cinema; chapter 19; White Nights; chapter 20; The Stranger chapter 21; Remembrance of Things Past; chapter 22; The Innocent; Filmography; Stage Productions; Unrealized Film Projects; Bibliography