Description
This volume explores and complicates Pasolini's life, works, and legacy, forty years after his death.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 *
What I like about the collection of essays is that they approach the protagonist in an objective and unprejudiced way and examine the man's emissions with questions pertinent to the times we live in. * Scene Point Blank *
Book Information
ISBN 9781501328893
Author Luca Peretti
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 558g