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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456172203321

Titolo

Pier Paolo Pasolini : contemporary perspectives / / edited by Patrick Rumble and Bart Testa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

9786612011856

1-4426-7848-8

1-282-01185-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

858/.91409

Soggetti

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Pier Paolo, My Cousin ... -- Pasolini's 'Roman Novels/ the Italian Communist Party, and the Events of 1956 -- Pasolini, Zanzotto, and the Question of Pedagogy -- Pasolini's 'Second Victory' -- Free/Indirect/Discourse -- The Body of Pasolini's Semiotics: A Sequel Twenty Years Later -- Toward a Materialist Linguistics: Pasolini's Theory of Language -- A Genial Analytic Mind: 'Film' and 'Cinema' in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Film Theory -- Manifesto for a New Theatre -- Accattone and Mamma Roma -- To Film a Gospel... and Advent of the Theoretical Stranger -- Stylistic Contamination in the Trilogia della vita: The Case of Il fiore delle milk e una notte -- Said: The Refusal to Consume -- Tetis -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

A reexamination of Pasolini life and work as a poet, novelist, filmmaker, journalist and cultural theorist reflecting new developments in semiotics, post-structuralist theory, and historical research on Italian literature and film. Two important essays by Pasolini, translated for the first time, are included.