A rich and timely collection of essays on late 20th-century Italy’s most controversial poet, novelist, filmmaker and polemicist Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). This volume bravely and deftly rejects the hagiography that often plagues ‘Pasolini studies,’ opening up his multivalent works to a long-overdue reassessment in line with urgent 21st-century questions, from climate change to the enduring racial regimes of western (neo)colonialism.

Rhiannon Noel Welch, Associate Professor of Italian and Cinema Studies, Rutgers University, USA

So much has already been said and written about Pasolini but Peretti and Raizen's volume nevertheless succeeds admirably in opening up some genuinely new vistas on the life, work and relevance to our own times of this fascinating, if frustratingly contradictory, figure.

Gino Moliterno, Senior Lecturer, Film and New Media, The Australian National University, Australia

This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and his legacy. Over 40 years after his death Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to challenge and interest us, both in academic circles and in popular discourses. Today his films stand as lampposts of Italian cinematic production, his cinematic theories resonate broadly through academic circles, and his philosophical, essayistic, and journalistic writings—albeit relatively sparsely translated into other languages—are still widely influential. Pasolini has also become an image, a mascot, a face on tote bags, a graffiti image on walls, an adjective (pasolinian). The collected essays push us to consider and reconsider Pasolini, a thinker for the twenty-first century.
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Acknowledgements

Foreword, Luca Peretti (Yale University, USA) and Karen T. Raizen (Bard College, USA)


1. Dirt and Order in Pasolini, David Forgacs (New York University, USA)


Space/Otherness/Geography


2. ‘Howls from the Left’: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Allen Ginsberg, and the Legacies of Beat America, Ara H. Merjian (New York University, USA)

3. Filming Decolonization: Pasolini’s Geopolitical Afterlife, Luca Caminati (Concordia University, USA)

4. Voicing the Popular in Appunti per un’ Orestiade Africana, Karen T. Raizen

5. La rabbia: Pasolini’s Color Ecstasy, Nicola Perugini (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Francesco Zucconi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)

6. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La Nebbiosa: Teddy Boys and the Economic Miracle in Milan, Scott Budzynski (Savannah College of Art and Design, USA)

7. The Loss of the Separated World: On Pasolini’s Communism, Evan Calder Williams (Bard College, USA)


Time/Prophecy/Production

8. Television, Neo-Capitalism, and Modernity: Pasolini on TV, Damiano Garofalo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)

9. From Accattone to Profezia: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Productive Failure, Krzysztof Rowinski (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

10. Pasolini and the Anthropocene, Karen Pinkus (Cornell University, USA)

11. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Political Animism, Federico Luisetti (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)


Unframing Pasolini

12a. Interview with Willem Dafoe: Pasolini embodied, (conducted by Maurizio Braucci)
12b. Pasolini Undead, Robert S.C. Gordon (University of Cambridge, UK)
12c. Pasolini Reloaded, Paola Bonifazio (University of Texas Austin, USA)

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

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This volume<i> </i>explores and complicates Pasolini’s life, works, and legacy, forty years after his death.
Contains a mix of essays by established scholars (David Forgacs, Karen Pinkus, Ara Merjian) and emerging voices of promising junior scholars

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501365034
Publisert
2020-06-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Om bidragsyterne

Luca Peretti is Visiting Assistant Professor in Contemporary Italian Studies at Ohio State University, USA. He works on film history, non-fiction cinema, Jewish Italian culture, and Italian intellectual history. He co-edited Immagini di piombo: Cinema, storia e terrorismi in Europa (2014) and has published for, among others, Senses of Cinema, The Italianist: Film Issue, and Cinema e storia. He is also a freelance journalist.

Karen T. Raizen is Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bard College, USA. Her research focuses mainly on aesthetics and language in baroque opera and theater; her current book project explores the diffusion and evolution of the figure of Pulcinella from the Commedia dell’Arte tradition. Her publications have appeared in I Tatti Studies, Italica, and Senses of Cinema, among others. She also works as a translator and editor.