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Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome
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 Pasolini—but it’s 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 m...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
March 9th 2007
by University Of Minnesota Press
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excellent examination of the inseparable relation of Pasolini to and with and within and the Roman Periferia from the poetry collection of "Le ceneri di Gramsci" through to his films more or less ending with "Hawks and Sparrows" (English title)
what a great source to learn more about the city - the real rome, that i know and live in. and also a great source of pasolini criticism. i searched for months on modern histtories about romes peripheral neighborhoods ....and found this treasure in a musky old english bookstore a few blocks from where pasolini wrote "i ragazzi"... it was meant to be!
it was well written and researched. some of his film criticism is a little elementary -- the urban theory and study is the rea...more
it was well written and researched. some of his film criticism is a little elementary -- the urban theory and study is the rea...more
Author has fairly modest/attainable goals. Not strictly about Pasolini's films, also addresses Neorealist films in a fairly interesting way and also gives an interesting and concise history of modern-urban development of Rome.
Aude Bruneau
marked it as to-read
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