The Resurrection of the Body - Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade (Hardcover)

Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer's identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. "The Resurrection of the Body" is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay "Saint Paul," the scenario for "Porn-Theo-Colossal," the immense and unfinished novel "Petrolio," and his notorious final film, "Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom," a disturbing adaptation of the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Together these works, Armando Maggi contends, reveal Pasolini's obsession with sodomy and its role within his apocalyptic view of Western society. One of the first studies to explore the ramifications of Pasolini's homosexuality, "The Resurrection of the Body" also breaks new ground by putting his work into fruitful conversation with an array of other thinkers such as Freud, Strindberg, Swift, Henri Michaux, and Norman O. Brown.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	March 2009
Authors:	Armando Maggi
Dimensions:	161 x 236 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	424
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-50134-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-50134-5
Barcode:	9780226501345

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