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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809442603321

Autore

Bondavalli Simona

Titolo

Fictions of Youth : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms / / Simona Bondavalli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-2136-2

1-4426-2135-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian studies Fictions of youth

Disciplina

858/.91409

Soggetti

Youth in literature

Adolescence in literature

Fascism in literature

Youth in motion pictures

Fascism in motion pictures

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction; 1 Giovinezza, or The Best of Youth; Largo ai Giovani! Youth and Fascism in the 1940s; Pasolini and Fascist University Youth: Architrave and Il setaccio; Generational Identity, Personal Exclusion: Eredi, Exile, Nostalgia ; Poesie a Casarsa: The Very Best of Youth; 2 Being Young: Bildung, Development, and Growing Up Ragazzi; Being Young: Ragazzi di vita as a Reversed Bildungsroman; Alternative Lessons in the Streets of Rome; Redeeming the Ragazzi: Una vita violenta

Urban Development and Neorealism: The Tiburtino Quarter3 Looking Back in Longing: Lost Youth, Teddy Boys, and Il sogno di una cosa; Giovani, Giovani, Giovani: Youth and Mass Media in 1960; Where Is the Best of Youth?: Timeless and Contemporary Adolescence in Il sogno di una cosa; The Boys with the Striped T-Shirts; Second Best? Portraits of Young Women in the 1940s; Two Weddings and a Funeral: Rites of Passage; 4 Revolutionary Youth: From the Page, to the Streets, to the Screen; The Generation of 1968; A New Poetry of Youth: New Linguistic



Questions and the Cinema of Poetry

Coming of Age on Screen: Comizi d'amoreMoving beyond Pedagogy, One Step at a Time: Uccellacci e uccellini; Flower Power and Flower Shops: A Brief Encounter with Counterculture; The Written Language of Action: Poetry and Cinema; 5 Fatherless Youth: Fathers, Children, Orphans; Ugly Verses for Spoiled Children: "The PCI to the Young!"; Wanting to Be Orphans, Refusing to Be a Father: Il Caos; Generational Conflicts: Rebellious Children and Fascist Fathers; The Cinematic Poetry of Youth: Teorema; Disobeying the Almighty Father: La sequenza del fiore di carta

6 Giovani Infelici: Consumer, Disobedient, Unhappy YouthConsuming Disobedient Adolescence: Porcile; Beyond the Sessantottini: Neo-capitalism as the New Fascism; Sharing Responsibilities: Fathers and Children; Gennariello: A Concise Study Guide to Pasolini; Coming of Age as Sadists: Salò and the Repudiation of Youth; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini's prose, poetry, and cinema.