{"product_id":"allegories-of-contamination-pier-paolo-pasolinis-trilogy-of-life-paperback","title":"Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Rumble\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life)\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In \u003cem\u003eAllegories of Contamination\u003c\/em\u003e Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and theoretical study of these films and the Marxist filmmaker's complex, original concept of the cinematic medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the three films that make up the \u003cem\u003eTrilogy of Life\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e - Pasolini attempts to recapture the aura surrounding popular, predominantly oral forms of storytelling through a pro-modern vision of innocent, unalienated bodies and pleasures. In these works Pasolini appears to abandon the explicitly political engagement that marked his earlier works - films that led him to be identified with other radical filmmakers such as Bellocchio, Bertolucci, and Godard. However, Pasolini insisted that these were his 'most ideological films, ' and his political engagement translates into a mannerist, anti-classical style or what he called a 'cinema of poetry.' Rumble offers a comparative study based on the concept of 'aesthetic contamination, ' which is fundamental to the understanding of Pasolini's poetics. Aesthetic contamination concerns the mediation between different cultures and different historical moments. Through stylistic experimentation, the \u003cem\u003eTrilogy of Life\u003c\/em\u003e presents a genealogy of visual codes, an interrogation of the subjectivity of narrative cinema. In these films Pasolini celebrates life, and perhaps therein lies their simple heresy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Rumble\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 207\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.92 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53525753594163,"sku":"9780802072191","price":68.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/290lQoj7EK9780802072191.webp?v=1783106135","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/allegories-of-contamination-pier-paolo-pasolinis-trilogy-of-life-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}