REFRAMING LUCHINO VISCONTI

Film and Art. Frames of Reference Luchino Viscontis Intervisual Appropriation of Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visual vocabulary of one of Italys most reputed film authors.

It meticulously researches Viscontis appropriation of European art in his set and costume design, from pictorial citations and the archeology of the set to the use of portraits and pictorial references in costume design.

Yet it also investigates Viscontis cinematography in combination with his mise-en-scne in terms of staging, framing, mobile framing, and mirroring.

Here not only aesthetic conventions from art but