A Certain Realism - Making Use of Pasolini′s film theory & Practice (Paper)

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-520-07855-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films—Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Saló—continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, Pasolini once claimed that "a certain realism" informed his filmmaking.

Masterfully combining analyses of Pasolini's literary and theoretical writings and of all his films, Maurizio Viano offers the first thorough study of Pasolini's cinematic realism, in theory and in practice. He finds that Pasolini's cinematic career exemplifies an "expressionistic realism" that acknowledges its subjective foundation instead of striving for an impossible objectivity.

Focusing on the personal and expressionistic dimensions of Pasolini's cinema, Viano also argues that homosexuality is present in the films in ways that critics have thus far failed to acknowledge. Sure to generate controversy among film scholars, Italianists, and fans of the director's work, this accessible film-by-film treatment is an ideal companion for anyone watching Pasolini's films on video.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Viano, Maurizio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 

1 Authorial lntertext 
2 Extravagantly Interdisciplinary 
3 An Explosion of My Love for Reality 
4 Accattone 
5 Mamma Roma 
6 La ricotta 
7 La rabbis 
8 Comizl d'amore
9 Sopraluoghl in Palestlna 
1 O // Vangelo secondo Matteo 
11 Uccellacci uccellini 
12 La terrs vista dalla /una and Che cosa sono le nuvole? 
13 Edipo re 
14 La sequenza del flore di carta
15 Appunti per un film sull'India 
16 Teorema 
17 Porcile 
18 Medea 
19 Appunti per un'Orestiade Africans 2
20 Le mura di Sana'a 
21 La trilogia della vita 
22 Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma 

Coda 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Filmography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maurizio Viano is Associate Professor of Italian at Wellesley College.