The resurrection of the body : Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade / Armando Maggi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maggi, Armando.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975--Criticism and interpretation.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer's identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. The Resurrection of the Body is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay Saint Paul, the scenari

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION. Sodom, Its Inhabitants, and Its Language in Pasolini's Final Works

1. A Body of Nostalgia: Pasolini's Self-Portrait in the Film Project Saint Paul

2. The Journey to Sodom and Gomorrah and Beyond: The Scenario Porn-Theo-Colossal

3. "A Diluted Reel of Film in My Brain": To Preach a New "Word of Abjuration" in Petrolio

4. To Give Birth in Sal`o and Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom

CONCLUSION. "A Schizophrenic Child Is a Tiny Dot, I Dreamed Once": Metamorphosis in Mario Mieli and Pasolini

Appendix: A Basic Biography

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612089916

9781282089914

1282089919

9780226501369

0226501361

OCLC:

404276491