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- Title
Catch Hannibal at Mr Ripley's Fight Club if you can: From Eurodecadent cinema to American nationalist allegory.
- Authors
Dassanowsky, Robert von
- Abstract
The article reports on the move by film directors regarding the transition from Eurodecadence cinema to American nationality allegory. The Eurodecadent school in the 1970s crystallizes in cinema director Luchino Visconti's script for a drawing-room version of Wagner's intertext between sexual perversion and power in Nazi Germany. Visconti's film "The Damned" was understood in its own time as the sum total of sexual liberation and leftist antifascists film-making in Nazi drag. The director's hypnotically beautiful but comfortable personal mythology of selective aristocratic aesthetics and Marxism managed to slam the entire ruling class while he enjoyed decorating their elitist lives.
- Subjects
VISCONTI, Luchino, 1906-1976; FILMMAKERS; FILMMAKING; NATIONAL socialism; SEXUAL freedom; MOTION pictures; DAMNED, The/La caduta degli dei (Film); PRINCIPLE of nationalities; PARAPHILIAS; NATIONAL socialism &; education; ALLEGORY in motion pictures
- Publication
Film International (16516826), 2007, Vol 5, Issue 3, p14
- ISSN
1651-6826
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/fiin.5.3.14