"Albert Maysles has created some of the most influential documentaries of the postwar period ... In this in-depth study, Joe McElhaney offers a novel understanding of the historical relevance of Maysles ... this book situates Maysles's films within not only documentary film hist…
Albert Maysles has created some of the most influential documentaries of the postwar period. Such films as Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Grey Gardens continue to generate intense debate about the ethics and aesthetics of the documentary form. In this in-depth study, Joe McElhaney…
"A central argument of this book is that the cinema of fabric arises throughout film history, from the cinema's origins to the present day, and across various genres, national cinemas, and film movements, as well as within the work of various auteurs. Visconti's origins as a dir…
"A central argument of this book is that the cinema of fabric arises throughout film history, from the cinema's origins to the present day, and across various genres, national cinemas, and film movements, as well as within the work of various auteurs. Visconti's origins as a dir…
"A central argument of this book is that the cinema of fabric arises throughout film history, from the cinema's origins to the present day, and across various genres, national cinemas, and film movements, as well as within the work of various auteurs. Visconti's origins as a dir…
"In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, Joe McElhaney situates Visconti's films as privileged and deeply expressive instances of a trope that McElhaney identifies as the "cinema of fabric": a reoccurrence in film in which textiles--clothing, curtains, tablecloths, bedshee…