Dopo Tanto Veder Pasoliniʹs Dante after the Disappearance of the Fireflies
In this essay, I propose to offer a general description of the significance of Danteʹs work for a single Italian filmmaker and writer, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was a profoundly important poet, novelist, and filmmaker, who produced his work within a span of years from the end of the Second World...
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Published in | Dante, Cinema, and Television p. 153 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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Canada
University of Toronto Press
06.10.2004
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Summary: | In this essay, I propose to offer a general description of the significance of Danteʹs work for a single Italian filmmaker and writer, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was a profoundly important poet, novelist, and filmmaker, who produced his work within a span of years from the end of the Second World War until his mysterious assassination in 1975. It seems to me that, in the Italian culture of the last century, there is no other figure who so often returned to Dante – especially the Dante of theInferno. And certainly, among Italian filmmakers, no one has greater debts to |
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ISBN: | 9780802088277 0802088279 |