Stupendous, Miserable City : Pasolini's Rome /

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John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini-but it's not the classical Rome you imagine. Stupendous, Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-century Roman urban dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rhodes, John David, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, > 1922-1975.
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, > 1922-1975 > Criticism and interpretation.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
Italy > Rome.
Rome (Italy) > In motion pictures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • This cinema, This city
  • A short history of the Roman periphery
  • "Rome, ringed by its hell of suburbs"
  • "Scandalous desecration": Accattone against the Neorealist City
  • Pasolini, the peripheral sublime, and public housing
  • Mamma Roma and Pasolini's Oedipal (housing) complex
  • The allegorical autostrada.

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