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The Resurrection of the Body
Armando Maggi
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Description for The Resurrection of the Body
Hardcover. Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. This title interprets his final works: the screenplay 'Saint Paul', the scenario for "Porn-Theo-Colossal", and the immense and unfinished novel "Petrolio". Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; APFB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 32. Weight in Grams: 730.
Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer's identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality."The Resurrection of the Body" is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay 'Saint Paul', the scenario for "Porn-Theo-Colossal", the immense and unfinished novel "Petrolio", and his notorious final film, ... Read more
Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer's identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality."The Resurrection of the Body" is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay 'Saint Paul', the scenario for "Porn-Theo-Colossal", the immense and unfinished novel "Petrolio", and his notorious final film, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226501345
SKU
V9780226501345
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About Armando Maggi
Armando Maggi is professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for The Resurrection of the Body
"This is a book of striking originality - in its approach to Pasolini and in its reconfiguring of his oeuvre in light of Maggi's 'sodomitical' reading of four key late works. It is packed with insights gleaned both from Maggi's detailed and powerfully argued close analyses and from his highly stimulating forays beyond the four core texts." - Robert Gordon, ... Read more