Saint Paul: a screenplay

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"Pier Paolo Pasolini's screenplay of an unfinished film about St. Paul is a key addition to the existing bibliography around St. Paul and to a proliferating trend in literature centered on the current turn to religion in philosophy and critical theory. Authors such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben have all taken part in these discussions. Pasolini's screenplay, however, looks nothing like a sober philosophical treatise on religion, faith or St. Paul; instead, it is a remarkably…

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Full title :Saint Paul : a screenplay / Pier Paolo Pasolini ; translated and introduced by Elizabeth A. Castelli ; foreword by Alain Badiou ; afterword by Ward Blanton.

Summary

"Pier Paolo Pasolini's screenplay of an unfinished film about St. Paul is a key addition to the existing bibliography around St. Paul and to a proliferating trend in literature centered on the current turn to religion in philosophy and critical theory. Authors such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben have all taken part in these discussions. Pasolini's screenplay, however, looks nothing like a sober philosophical treatise on religion, faith or St. Paul; instead, it is a remarkably exciting text, relentless in both its sacralization and profaning of filmic reality"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:xlii, 142 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781781682883, 1781682887
oclc:ocn861672433
LC Classification:PN1997.3
Dewey Decimal:852/.914

Introduction: Translating Pasolini translating Paul / by Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Plan for a film about Saint Paul -- Outline of a screenplay for a film about Saint Paul (in the form of notes for a production director) -- Note on the text -- Afterword: Appropriation's excess, Paul of Tarsus for an age of the capitalization of mastery / by Ward Blanton.