Domietta Torlasco The Time of the Crime sku-8097327

Domietta Torlasco's The Time of the Crime (sku-8097327) is a hardcover in Performing Arts Books. It examines time and vision through the crime scene in five Italian films from the sixties and seventies: Antonioni's Blow-Up and The Passenger, Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem, Cavani's The Night Porter, and Pasolini's Oedipus Rex.

In these films, a crime is committed, witnessed and investigated, but its timing resists a clear division between past, present and future. The investigator anticipates their own death, and the past appears in relation to a search whose outcome is still ahead.