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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 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 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 Pasolini's 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 Rome's poor. To Pasolini, the borgate, rich in human incident, linguistic difference, and squalor, "were life"--and now his passion can be appreciated fully for the first time.

Carefully tracing Pasolini's surprising engagement with this part of Rome and looking beyond his films to explore the interrelatedness of all of Pasolini's artistic output in the 1950s and 1960s--including his poetry, fiction, and journalism--Rhodes opens up completely new ways of understanding Pasolini's work and proves how connected Pasolini was to the political and social upheavals in Italy at the time.

John David Rhodes is lecturer in literature and visual culture at the University of Sussex.

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  • Title Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome
  • Author John David Rhodes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
  • Publication date 2007-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780816649303 / 0816649308
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 5.88 x 0.48 in (22.83 x 14.94 x 1.22 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Rome (Italy) - In motion pictures, Pasolini, Pier Paolo - Criticism and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006100453
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430
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