Pasolini: forms of subjectivity

by Gordon, Robert S. C., (Robert Samuel Clive)

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Full title :Pasolini : forms of subjectivity / Robert S.C. Gordon.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 324 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198159056, 9780198159056
oclc:ocm35262224
LC Classification:PQ4835.A48
Dewey Decimal:858/.91409

Introduction : the work of subjectivity -- Part I. Pasolini's public work ; The contours of a career -- Projects in journalism -- Vocations -- Part II. Poetry : a movement of forms ; 'Who is me' : the impulse to autobiography -- 'Pura luce' : a vision of history -- 'Un folle identificarsi' : figuring the self -- 'Mio corpo insepolto' : the body and the father -- Poetry into cinema -- Part III. Cinema : tracking the subject ; Authority and inscription -- Style and technique -- Genesis and intertextuality -- Metaphor -- Being and film-time -- Spectatorship -- Part IV. Unfinished endings ; Petrolio : self and form.