Leo Bersani

Caravaggio

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Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. And yet the film is a uniquely complex and lucid treatment of Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. In particular, according to Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio is unlike Jarman's other work in avoiding a sentimentalising of gay relat… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Dutoit, Ulysse

ISBN: 978-1-83902-256-2
EAN: 9781839022562
Produktnummer: 34460725
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.8 cm
Auflage: 2. A.
Abbildungen: 60 colour illus

Über den Autor

Leo Bersani was for some years the Class of 1950 Professor of French, and Ulysse Dutoit is Lecturer in Film, both at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. They are co-authors of The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture (1985), Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais (1994) and Caravaggio's Secrets (1998).