Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Ludwig 2. Death in Venice 3. The Damned Conclusion Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

A philosophical approach to the classic films of Luchino Visconti, one of Europe’s most prestigious auteurs.

About the Author

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA. He is the author and editor of many books most recently The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society (2017) and Joseph Pla: The World Seen in the Form of Articles (2017).

Reviews

An original, productive approach to a major filmmaker with unmistakable philosophical relevance, makes a major contribution not just to the study of Visconti’s legacy but to the exploration of the dialogue between film, history and philosophy.
*Antonio Monegal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain*

A wonderful book of oxymoric strenghts: provocative, yet made to become a standard work; lucid in its analytic abstraction, yet palpably concrete; aesthetic, yet political; historical, yet for our times.
*Jan Söffner, Professor and Chair in Cultural Theory and Analysis, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany*