Description: Luchino Visconti's career as a film-maker began in the 1930s when he escaped the culture of fascist Italy to work with Jean Renoir in the France of the Popular Front. This is a study of this director.
Brief description: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London.
Review Quotes:
"This succinct volume is remarkably focused and ably succeeds in summarizing the progess of one of the most vital Euopean cinemas while still keeping and close eye on specific examples." --Journal of Romance Studies, Rebecca H. Bauman
"Resina's examination of the culminating works of this remarkably intellectual film artist is exceptionally insightful, erudite, and penetrating." --CHOICE