Will Aitken: Will Aitken is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, multimedia director and teacher born in Terre Haute, Indiana and now based in Montreal. His novels include Realia, A Visit Home and Terre Haute. He has written for The Paris Review and a variety of other publications and worked as a writer-broadcaster for the CBC, the BBC and NPR.
"A romp ... Aitken zigzags from Platen to Plato to Visconti's love
life with irresistible charm." --Andrew Holleran, Washington Post
"There is much to admire in Aitken's poetic and personal account of
the film ... [It] begins to unfold the complexity and richness of a
film whose true brilliance many have yet failed to appreciate."
--Film Quarterly "Will Aitken's superb study of Death in Venice
grasps the prickliest nettles surrounding the film - just how
homosexual Mann, the novel and the film really are, the notion of
decadence, the film's soporific languor and its supposed queer
abjection--and subjects them to a scrutiny at once unflinching,
generous and constantly illuminating. This is a model of how to
intertwine personal response, empirical detail, precise filmic
description and wider theoretical issues without ever collapsing
these into each other. And it is written with a wonderfully judged
wryness and fluency that beautifully evokes and vindicates a
magnificent, troubling film." --Richard Dyer "As a longtime devotee
of the films of Luchino Visconti, I'm thrilled to report that this
new critical study on the work of Visconti is an admirable addition
to any film aficionado's library." --Gay & Lesbian Review
"A romp...Aitken zigzags from Platen to Plato to Visconti's love
life with irresistible charm."--Andrew Holleran, Washington Post
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