Pasolini
Subtitle: forms of subjectivity
By: Robert S.C. Gordon.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Pasolini, Pier Paolo, -- 1922-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: In the twenty years since his death, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) has grown into a figure of defining importance in the history of post-war Italian literary and cinematographic culture. His extraordinary and continuing impact is explained by his capacity to appropriate and transform traditional genres, media, languages, and forms of art, and to bring them into stark confrontation with the deeply fractured social, political, and sexual landscape of modern Italy.

Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity aims at a global reassessment of Pasolini, examining in turn his journalism and essays, his poetry, his film theory and practice, and his sprawling, posthumously published narrative fragment Petrolio, all from the perspective of the complex workings of subjectivity which animate every aspect of his work. Gordon provides a conceptual and interpretative framework which redraws the boundaries of our understanding of Pasolini's work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.