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Stupendous, Miserable City

Pasolini's Rome

Stupendous, Miserable City
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John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo PasoliniÑbut itÕs not the classical Rome you imagine. Stupendous, Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-century Roman urban development. The book focuses first on the Fascist period, when populations were moved out of the urban center and into public housing on the periphery of the city, called the borgate, and then turns to the progressive social housing experiments of the 1950s. These environments were the settings of most of PasoliniÕs films of the early to mid-1960s. Discussing films such as Accattone, Mamma Roma, and The Hawks and the Sparrows, Rhodes shows how Pasolini used the borgate to critique Roman urban planning and neorealism and to draw attention to the contemptuous treatment of RomeÕs poor. To Pasolini, the borgate, rich in human incident, linguistic difference, and squalor, Òwere lifeÓÑand now his passion can be appreciated fully for the first time. Carefully tracing PasoliniÕs surprising engagement with this part of Rome and looking beyond his films to explore the interrelatedness of all of PasoliniÕs artistic output in the 1950s and 1960sÑincluding his poetry, fiction, and journalismÑRhodes opens up completely new ways of understanding PasoliniÕs work and proves how connected Pasolini was to the political and social upheavals in Italy at the time.
University of Minnesota Press; March 2007
220 pages; ISBN 9780816654390
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