Managing the Crisis Rather than Breaking the Machine: The Prophetic Paranoia of Francesco Rosi’s Illustrious Corpses

|Victoria Breshears| Francesco Rosi’s 1976 political thriller Illustrious Corpses begins with us watching a high court judge move past rows of clothed, desiccated mummies within the Capuchin Catacombs. While this opening scene signals mortality to be an important theme for the movie... Continue reading The post Managing the Crisis Rather than Breaking the Machine: The Prophetic Paranoia of…