Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was both a writer and filmmaker deeply rooted in European culture, as well as an intellectual who moved between different traditions, identities and positions. Early on he looked to Africa and Asia for possible alternatives to the hegemony of Western Neocapitalism and Consumerism, and in his hands the Greek and Judeo-Christian Classics morphed into unsettling multistable figures constantly shifting between West and East, North and South, the present and the past, rationality and myth, identity and otherness. The contributions in this volume, which belong to different intellectual and disciplinary fields, are bound together by a fascination for Pasolini’s ability to recognize contradictions, to intensify and multiply them, as well as to make them aesthetically and politically productive. What emerges is a ‘euro-eccentric’ and multifaceted Pasolini of great interest for the present.
ISBN 978-3-85132-681-9 | Paperback | 32 EUR
327 pp. | 24 cm x 16 cm
Cultural Inquiry, 6
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X
Table of Contents
Subjectivities / Geographies
- ‘La vera Diversità’: Multistability, Circularity, and Abjection in Pasolini’s Pilade
- Pasolini as Jew: Between Israel and Europe
- Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pan-Meridional Italianness
- The Body of the Actor: Notes on the Relationship between the Body and Acting in Pasolini’s Cinema
- The Guest: Transfiguring Indifference in Teorema
Geographies / Traditions
- Analogy and Difference: Multistable Figures in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana
- Pasolini and India: De- and Re-Construction of a Myth
- Outside Italy: Pasolini’s Transnational Visions of the Sacred and Tradition
- Reconciliation and Stark Incompatibility: Pasolini’s ‘Africa’ and Greek Tragedy
Traditions / Subjectivities
- One Divided by Another: Split and Conversion in Pasolini’s San Paolo
- Alain Badiou’s Pasolini: The Problem of Subtractive Universalism
- Figura lacrima
- Cinematographic Aesthetics as Subversion of Moral Reason in Pasolini’s Medea