The resurrection of the body [[electronic resource] ] : Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade / / Armando Maggi

• Autore: Maggi Armando
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Disciplina: 858/.91409
• Soggetto topico: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Sodom, Its Inhabitants, and Its Language in Pasolini's Final Works -- 1. A Body of Nostalgia: Pasolini's Self-Portrait in the Film Project Saint Paul -- 2. The Journey to Sodom and Gomorrah and Beyond: The Scenario Porn-Theo-Colossal -- 3. "A Diluted Reel of Film in My Brain": To Preach a New "Word of Abjuration" in Petrolio -- 4. To Give Birth in Sal`o and Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom -- CONCLUSION. "A Schizophrenic Child Is a Tiny Dot, I Dreamed Once": Metamorphosis in Mario Mieli and Pasolini -- Appendix: A Basic Biography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer's identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. The Resurrection of the Body is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay Saint Paul, the scenari
• Titolo autorizzato: The resurrection of the body
• ISBN: 1-282-08991-9; 9786612089916; 0-226-50136-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454113603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II