Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed

Luca Peretti is Visiting Assistant Professor in Contemporary Italian Studies at Ohio State University, USA. He works on film history, non-fiction cinema, Jewish Italian culture, and Italian intellectual history. He co-edited Immagini di piombo: Cinema, storia e terrorismi in Europa (2014) and has published for, among others, Senses of Cinema, The Italianist: Film Issue, and Cinema e storia. He is also a freelance journalist.Karen T. Raizen is Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bard College, USA. Her research focuses mainly on aesthetics and language in baroque opera and theater; her current book project explores the diffusion and evolution of the figure of Pulcinella from the Commedia dell’Arte tradition. Her publications have appeared in I Tatti Studies, Italica, and Senses of Cinema, among others. She also works as a translator and editor.

• AcknowledgementsForeword, Luca Peretti (Yale University, USA) and Karen T. Raizen (Bard College, USA)1. Dirt and Order in Pasolini, David Forgacs (New York University, USA)Space/Otherness/Geography2. ‘Howls from the Left’: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Allen Ginsberg, and the Legacies of Beat America, Ara H. Merjian (New York University, USA)3. Filming Decolonization: Pasolini’s Geopolitical Afterlife, Luca Caminati (Concordia University, USA)4. Voicing the Popular in Appunti per un’ Orestiade Africana, Karen T. Raizen5. La rabbia: Pasolini’s Color Ecstasy, Nicola Perugini (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Francesco Zucconi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)6. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La Nebbiosa: Teddy Boys and the Economic Miracle in Milan, Scott Budzynski (Savannah College of Art and Design, USA)7. The Loss of the Separated World: On Pasolini’s Communism, Evan Calder Williams (Bard College, USA)Time/Prophecy/Production8. Television, Neo-Capitalism, and Modernity: Pasolini on TV, Damiano Garofalo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)9. From Accattone to Profezia: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Productive Failure, Krzysztof Rowinski (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)10. Pasolini and the Anthropocene, Karen Pinkus (Cornell University, USA)11. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Political Animism, Federico Luisetti (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)Unframing Pasolini12a. Interview with Willem Dafoe: Pasolini embodied, (conducted by Maurizio Braucci)12b. Pasolini Undead, Robert S.C. Gordon (University of Cambridge, UK)12c. Pasolini Reloaded, Paola Bonifazio (University of Texas Austin, USA)BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

A rich and timely collection of essays on late 20th-century Italy’s most controversial poet, novelist, filmmaker and polemicist Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). This volume bravely and deftly rejects the hagiography that often plagues ‘Pasolini studies,’ opening up his multivalent works to a long-overdue reassessment in line with urgent 21st-century questions, from climate change to the enduring racial regimes of western (neo)colonialism.