Frame, Space, Narrative. Doors, Windows, and Mobile Framing in the Films of Luchino Visconti
Frame, Space, Narrative. Doors, Windows, and Mobile Framing in the Films of Luchino Visconti

Summary/Abstract: In the last years, film and media studies are more and more discovering or rather appropriating ideas from art history and art theory, in particular iconology. This has led to great attention for the work of Aby Warburg and Ernst Panofsky. In particular the concept of motif has lead to publications such as Michael Walker’s Hitchcock’s Motifs (2005), and, most recently, the article ”Medienwissenschaft der Motive” (2009) by André Wendler and Lorenz Engell. In the underlying article, the motif of the door in the films of Luchino Visconti will be researched, in comparison with, in particular 17th century, painting. The framing by doors in art and film will be compared with the motif of the framing window, while differences with mobile framing will be traced. Finally, the results will be embedded within contemporary ideas on intermediality.

• Details
• Contents