Sex, the self and the sacred : women in the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini / Colleen Ryan-Scheutz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan-Scheutz, Colleen.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies.

Toronto Italian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in motion pictures--Textbooks.

Women in motion pictures.

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

Pasolini, Pier Paolo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Other Title:

Women in the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Born in Bologna in 1922, filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most controversial European intellectuals of his time. Pasolini believed the 'authentic' Italy - with its many languages and subcultures, its ancient roots and idiosyncrasies - to be disappearing before his eyes, and he used his films to denounce the social and ideological forces he felt were responsible for this detrimental change. Rather than campaign with overtly political films, however, Pasolini vested ideological impetus in key film characters, many of whom were women.Drawing upon Italy's distinct socio-cultural history as well as feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to film, Colleen Ryan-Scheutz explores the ways in which Pasolini's representations of women reveal his concerns about purity in modern Italian society. Ryan-Scheutz demonstrates how Pasolini used his female figures onscreen to critique the ruling class from a decisively different perspective and propose a range of alternatives to the increasingly sterile and capitalistic world of Italy and the West. Providing a new critical approach to Pasolini studies, Sex, the Self, and the Sacred brings psychoanalytic and feminist theories to bear on the auteur's lifelong poetics and theoretical writings on cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Susanna Pasolini and the Female Universe

2. Mothers

3. Prostitutes

4. Daughters

5. Saints

6. Sinners

7. Salò and Petrolio

Appendix: Filmography of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Essays presented at sessions of a 1993-94 seminar series sponsored by the Centre for Bioethics and the Dept. of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and index.

ISBN:

9781442684775

1442684771

OCLC:

923083013