Pier Paolo Pasolini

TESTI / 1 / Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey / This essay explores the episode of Pasolini’s play Porcile in which...

ARTICOLI / 1 / Filippo Trentin / This article aims to shed light on the intellectual relationship between Walter Benjamin and...

CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Giulia Cigna / In this essay I will analyse the topic of time and temporality in some...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Alessandra Granito / Pier Paolo Pasolini was a kind of ‘Master of Suspicion’ and one of the...

INTERVISTE / 2 / Antonio Lucci /  This interview  focuses on the relationship between Pasolini and Germany during his lifetime, as well...

ARTICOLI / 2 / Alberto M. Sobrero / Names and nicknames of the characters in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work have a more important role than is generally believed. The essay briefly examines the choice of names in...

ARTICOLI / 3 / Thomas Macho / This paper analyses the relationship between criticism against power and the representation of hunger in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work, above all on his film production. The critical potential of...

ARTICOLI / 4 / Antonio Lucci / This paper explores the theme of ascesis in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s cinematography. In the first part, I distinguish three classical forms of ascesis: renounciation of food, sexual abstinence, and...

TESTI / 2 / Silvia Mazzini / India was the first of a long series of Third World countries visited by Pasolini. In this essay I will analyze Pasolini’s writings and films after his visit in...

TESTI / 3 / Davide Luglio / This paper compares Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini, focusing mainly on avant-garde drama. It analyses Manifesto per un nuovo teatro by Pasolini and Barthes’s works on drama published...

ARTICOLI / 5 / Viola Brisolin / This article investigates the relations between subjective autonomy and the symbolic order – between the truth of the subject and the dimension of power – in Pasolini’s late...

CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Luca Peloso / In this paper I suggest to examine Pasolini’s critiques to the father of Structural Anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, based on a proposal: to substitute the notion of ‘structure’ with the term...

CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Alison Smith / For a long while the vocabulary of ‘Pasolini  corsaro’ has been part of contemporary  political debate, but often in the service of a deeply pessimistic reading of the possibilities of...

Articoli/ 6 / Pasquale Voza / Gramsci appears in the work of Pasolini at different levels. A first level is ‘ideal’, ethical: is the ‘leopardian Gramsci’, ‘pure heroic thought’, characterized also by the stigmata of ‘rigour’ (as...

Articoli / 7 / Marco Gatto / The article reflects on Pasolini inheritance, suppling the coordinates for a critical review of his work. By using Fortini, de Castris and other critics’ reflections, the author mantains the...

ARTICOLI / 8 / Riccardo Antoniani / By focusing on Pasolini’s late ‘corsair’ journalistic production as well as the unfinished and posthumous novel Petrolio, the contribute investigates the Poet of Ashes legacy within the current Italian...

CONTRIBUTI / 5 – di Matteo Bianchi Focusing on contemporary writers and critics, this essay investigates Pasolini’s problematic inheritance within the Italian literature. I shall show that, in fact, no contemporary Italian writer had, nor could, accept...

Con un saggio introduttivo di Toni Hildebrandt TESTI /4 / Harun Farocki / This paper studies the documentary film genre in Pasolini’s work, focusing mainly on Appunti per un’Orestiade africana (Notes on an African Orestes). Editing and technical details are...