Reframing Luchino Visconti

Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visual vocabulary of one of Italy's most reputed film authors. It meticulously researches Visconti's appropriation of European art in his set and costume design, from pictorial citations and the archaeology of the set to the use of portraits and pictorial references in costume design. Yet it also investigates Visconti's cinematography in combination with his mise-en-scène in terms of staging, framing, mobile framing, and mirroring. Here not only aesthetic conventions from art but also those from silent and sound cinema have been clearly appropriated by Visconti and his crew.This book gives answers to the question: where does the visual splendour of Visconti's films come from?CLUES is an international scientific series covering research in the field of culture, history and heritage which have been written by, or were performed under the supervision of members of the research institute CLUE+.CONTENTS:AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Intervisuality, Theory and HistoryI. Pictorial Citation, Art Direction, and Costume Design in Visconti's Films1. Pictorial Citation: Il Bacio and Other Citations in Senso2. Archeology of the Set (I): Greuze and The Leopard3. Archaeology of the Set (II): The Conversation Pieces in Conversation Piece4. The (Photo) Portrait and the Remembrance of Things Past5. Costume and Painting in Senso6. Costume: Veiling, Unveiling and Revealing with ViscontiII. Staging and Framing in Visconti's Films7. Staging in Depth: Objects and People8. Framing: Doors, Windows, and Anti-framing9. Mobile Framing and Visual Explorations10. Mirrors: Awkward ConfrontationsConclusionNotesIndex