{"product_id":"allegories-of-contamination-9780802072191","title":"Allegories of Contamination","description":"\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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Rumble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 5.96w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802072191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRumble, Patrick:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Patrick Rumble is a professor in the Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40136304066675,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_58eaa7da-caae-466c-a16f-d89af0558b1e.jpg?v=1654263232","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/allegories-of-contamination-9780802072191","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}