A Certain Realism

A Certain Realism

Making Use of Pasolini's Film Theory and Practice

$36.95

Publication Date: 15th July 1993

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films—Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Saló—continue to challenge and entertain new... Read More
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films—Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Saló—continue to challenge and entertain new... Read More
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films—Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Saló—continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, Pasolini once claimed that "a certain realism" informed his filmmaking.

Masterfully combining analyses of Pasolini's literary and theoretical writings and of all his films, Maurizio Viano offers the first thorough study of Pasolini's cinematic realism, in theory and in practice. He finds that Pasolini's cinematic career exemplifies an "expressionistic realism" that acknowledges its subjective foundation instead of striving for an impossible objectivity.

Focusing on the personal and expressionistic dimensions of Pasolini's cinema, Viano also argues that homosexuality is present in the films in ways that critics have thus far failed to acknowledge. Sure to generate controversy among film scholars, Italianists, and fans of the director's work, this accessible film-by-film treatment is an ideal companion for anyone watching Pasolini's films on video.
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  • Price: $36.95
  • Pages: 368
  • Carton Quantity: 20
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Publication Date: 15th July 1993
  • ISBN: 9780520078550
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
Author Bio
Maurizio Viano is Associate Professor of Italian at Wellesley College.
Table of Contents
Preface 

1 Authorial lntertext 
2 Extravagantly Interdisciplinary 
3 An Explosion of My Love for Reality 
4 Accattone 
5 Mamma Roma 
6 La ricotta 
7 La rabbis 
8 Comizl d'amore
9 Sopraluoghl in Palestlna 
1 O // Vangelo secondo Matteo 
11 Uccellacci uccellini 
12 La terrs vista dalla /una and Che cosa sono le nuvole? 
13 Edipo re 
14 La sequenza del flore di carta
15 Appunti per un film sull'India 
16 Teorema 
17 Porcile 
18 Medea 
19 Appunti per un'Orestiade Africans 2
20 Le mura di Sana'a 
21 La trilogia della vita 
22 Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma 

Coda 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Filmography 
Index 
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films—Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Saló—continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, Pasolini once claimed that "a certain realism" informed his filmmaking.

Masterfully combining analyses of Pasolini's literary and theoretical writings and of all his films, Maurizio Viano offers the first thorough study of Pasolini's cinematic realism, in theory and in practice. He finds that Pasolini's cinematic career exemplifies an "expressionistic realism" that acknowledges its subjective foundation instead of striving for an impossible objectivity.

Focusing on the personal and expressionistic dimensions of Pasolini's cinema, Viano also argues that homosexuality is present in the films in ways that critics have thus far failed to acknowledge. Sure to generate controversy among film scholars, Italianists, and fans of the director's work, this accessible film-by-film treatment is an ideal companion for anyone watching Pasolini's films on video.
  • Price: $36.95
  • Pages: 368
  • Carton Quantity: 20
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Publication Date: 15th July 1993
  • ISBN: 9780520078550
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
Maurizio Viano is Associate Professor of Italian at Wellesley College.
Preface 

1 Authorial lntertext 
2 Extravagantly Interdisciplinary 
3 An Explosion of My Love for Reality 
4 Accattone 
5 Mamma Roma 
6 La ricotta 
7 La rabbis 
8 Comizl d'amore
9 Sopraluoghl in Palestlna 
1 O // Vangelo secondo Matteo 
11 Uccellacci uccellini 
12 La terrs vista dalla /una and Che cosa sono le nuvole? 
13 Edipo re 
14 La sequenza del flore di carta
15 Appunti per un film sull'India 
16 Teorema 
17 Porcile 
18 Medea 
19 Appunti per un'Orestiade Africans 2
20 Le mura di Sana'a 
21 La trilogia della vita 
22 Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma 

Coda 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Filmography 
Index