Stupendous, miserable city : Pasolini's Rome / John David Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, John David, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome (Italy)--In motion pictures.

Rome (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini-but it's not the classical Rome you imagine. Stupendous, Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-century Roman urban development. The book focuses first on the Fascist period, when populations were moved out of the urban center and into public housing on the periphery of the city, called the borgate, and then turns to the progressive social housing experiments of the 1950's. These environments were

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: This Cinema, This City; 1. A Short History of the Roman Periphery; 2. "Rome, Ringed by Its Hell of Suburbs"; 3. "Scandalous Desecration": Accattone against the Neorealist City; 4. Pasolini, the Peripheral Sublime, and Public Housing; 5. Mamma Roma and Pasolini's Oedipal (Housing) Complex; Conclusion: The Allegorical Autostrada; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5439-5

OCLC:

233572806