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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819305903321

Autore

Rumble Patrick Allen <1963->

Titolo

Allegories of contamination : Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of life / / Patrick Rumble

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-4426-5602-6

1-4426-2346-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

858.91409

Soggetti

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Pasolini regista civile -- 2. Allegories of Contamination in the Trilogy of Life -- 3. Pasolini's Ironic Recantation: The 'Abiura dalla Trilogia della vita' -- 4. Framing Boccaccio: Pasolini's Adaptation of the Decameron -- 5. Afterword: Homosexualities, the Sacred, and the Paying of Debts -- Notes -- Appendix: Film Credits and Synopses -- Pasolini Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Rumble offers a comparative study based on the concept of 'aesthetic contamination, ' which is fundamental to the understanding of Pasolini's poetics.