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Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio - Two Medieval Texts and Their Translation to Film (Paperback)
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Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio - Two Medieval Texts and Their Translation to Film (Paperback)
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Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini's ""trilogy of life,"" a
series of three cinematic adaptations of medieval texts, includes
""The Decameron"" (1970), ""The Canterbury Tales"" (1971) and
""Arabian Nights"" (1973). Much more than simple retellings, the
films demonstrate a modern auteur's purposefully idealized and
stylized vision of the period, and each uniquely comments on
narrativity within the texts. In ""The Decameron"" and ""The
Canterbury Tales"", Pasolini himself plays the artist Giotto and
Geoffrey Chaucer, respectively, affording him positions of
considerable narrative power in the films. As Giotto suggests at
the end of ""The Decameron"", Pasolini's films dream the original
texts, offering his own poetic visualization, in a way that is
meant to revive the reading of his sources through irreverent
cinematic homage. This book explores Pasolini's visualized
narrative in the first two films of the trilogy, showing how film
becomes an alternative form of storytelling that allows auteurs
like Pasolini to adapt, in varying degrees of faith, classic
sources while displaying new artistic visions. The book first
studies the two films in detail and puts them in perspective within
the trilogy. Next, it interprets both films from a wider
perspective, recounting misinterpretations, expounding upon
Pasolini's ideological vision, and defending the oft-criticized
adaptations. Finally, the conclusion discusses how the films
represent innovation over strict adaptation, and considers the
paradox of rendering, non-realistically, the essence of original
works. Appendices offer charts with information on the narrative
structures of the films and the correspondences between them. A
bibliography and a Pasolini filmography are included.
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