Unveils the metaphoric and theoretical possibilities of fabric in the films of Luchino Visconti. In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, Joe McElhaney sit

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The first book in English to address Ingmar Bergman's cinema through a broad array of classical and contemporary approaches. Widely acclaimed around the world f

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