| Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe: Between Utopia and Nihilism Contributor(s): Vighi, Fabio (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443823783 ISBN-13: 9781443823784 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2010671682 |
| Physical Information: 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The present collection of essays brings into dialogue Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) by comparing their cultural and intellectual legacy. Pasolini and Fassbinder are amongst the last radical filmmakers to have emerged in Europe. Born in Italy and Germany, they inherited a traumatic social and political past which is reflected in their works through a number of similarly articulated and unresolved tensions: high and popular cultures, theatre, literature and cinema, ideology and narration, major and minor codes of expression. The essays in this book examine the uncompromising character of Pasolini's and Fassbinder's films. Constantly oscillating between utopia and nihilism, these works invite us to reconsider subjective and collective questions which from today's perspective seem lost forever. |