The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Introduction Luca Peretti and Daniel Fairfax December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini At the beginning of November 1975, Pasolini was killed on the beach of Ostia, a suburb of Rome. He was 53 years old. In the previous decade-and-a-half...
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Bandung Man”: The Indian and African Documentaries Pieter Vanhove December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini In 1975, just months before he was brutally murdered near Ostia, Pier Paolo Pasolini makes a striking diagnosis: “In the early 1960s, because of the a...
Comizi di Non Amore: Francesco Vezzoli Revisits Pasolini through Reality TV Francesco Spampinato December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini Translated in English as Love Meetings, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore (1964) should have been better translated literally: “Debates About Love....
(Mamma) Roma between Archaic and Modern Italy: Urbanisation and the Destruction of Poetical Dwelling Eleonora Sartoni December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini This article reads Martin Heidegger’s lectures on dwelling alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini’s depiction of Casarsa in “L’Usignolo” (“The Nightingale”) an...
Not to be Reproduced: Pasolini’s Salò and the Question of Visual Arts Ana Delia Rogobete December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini In an article dedicated to Pier Pasolo Pasolini’s Salò o le 120 giornate di sodoma (Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom, 1975), Roland Barthes asks himself ...
Beyond Perverse Allegiance: The Problem of Viewers’ Engagement in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom Paolo Russo December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini “Perhaps the most successful representation of physical cruelty in the history of cinema.” – Gilbert Adair, 1979 In a lengthy letter to the Directo...
Anglo-American Scholarship on Pasolini Today: Cinema and cinema of poetry Karen Raizen December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini The problem – or rather, a problem – with Pasolini is that he does not fit any one box. A glance at any call for papers for the numerous conferences o...
Pasolini’s “Kapadokya” Ellen Patat and Cristiano Bedin December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini This article explores the representation of Cappadocia (Kapadokya in Turkish) in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poetry and in one of his renowned movies, Medea...
The Profanation of Montage: Pasolini’s Allegorical Death/Cut in the Sequence-Shot Toni Hildebrandt December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini “Can the idea of the spiritual innocence of life in the simplicity of character also be formulated collectively in relation to history?” (Eli Friedlan...