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Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood
Alexander García Düttmann
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Description for Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood
Hardback. Analyzes the work of Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti in the light of concepts such as 'aesthetic seriousness' and the 'cinematic circle'. This book shows how Visconti's films allow for a privileged understanding of this idea and how it can offer a unified access to the films themselves. Translator(s): Savage, Robert. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Something needs to be changed-be it through the revolutionary overthrow of social conditions, the liberating force of passion, the contemplation and creation of works of art, or the exploration of an unresolved past. Luchino Visconti's films are models for the failure of such attempts. They show that this failure arises whenever people cling to possibilities that stand opposed to the reality of their lives. Does Adorno not write: The place of utopia is blocked off by possibility, never by immediate reality ? Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood draws on aesthetics, film theory, and practical philosophy to propose an ... Read more
Something needs to be changed-be it through the revolutionary overthrow of social conditions, the liberating force of passion, the contemplation and creation of works of art, or the exploration of an unresolved past. Luchino Visconti's films are models for the failure of such attempts. They show that this failure arises whenever people cling to possibilities that stand opposed to the reality of their lives. Does Adorno not write: The place of utopia is blocked off by possibility, never by immediate reality ? Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood draws on aesthetics, film theory, and practical philosophy to propose an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804757409
SKU
V9780804757409
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About Alexander García Düttmann
Alexander Garcia Duttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths (University of London). He is the author of At Odds with AIDS: Thinking and Talking about a Virus (Stanford, 1997), Between Cultures: Tensions in the Struggle of Recognition (Verso, 2000), The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Adorno and Heidegger (Continuum 2002), and Philosophy of Exaggeration (Continuum, 2007). ... Read more
Reviews for Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood
Duttmann's fine study is one of those rare books that combine the conceptual rigor of the philosopher with the aesthetic sensitivity of the artist in order to yield a text both highly illuminating and poetic in its own way. Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood is much more than a conventional study of a canonical Italian filmmaker: it is ... Read more