The major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet,
novelist, essayist, and iconoclastic political commentator. Naomi Greene
reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents that made him
one of the most controversial European intellectuals of the postwar era,
at the center of political and cultural debates still vital to our time.
Greene presents Pasolini's films to the English-speaking world in full
detail and in a rich critical context, using them to trace the evolution
of his ideas and the details of his troubled personal life from 1950,
when he settled in Rome, to 1975, the year of his brutal murder,
apparently at the hands of a young male prostitute. "In her concise and
sympathetic book, Greene intelligently explicates the political and
social context within which Pasolini became both a leading figure and a
significant heretic. He was an atheist who directed one of the few
genuinely profound biblical films in the cinema, a communist who
severely criticized many of the radical movements of modern Italy.
Though he publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, he privately referred
to it as his "sickness." As the book well documents, Pasolini was not a
rebel but rather an authentic heretic who worked in contradiction to
both his medium and milieu."--Choice
Originally published in 1990.
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