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The Ashes of Pasolini
The Ashes of Pasolini

Author(s): Gary Zabel
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Social Philosophy, Communication studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Serdar Öztürk
Keywords: Pasolini; Gramsci; semiotics; politics; poetry;

Summary/Abstract: Pier Paulo Pasolini’s engagement with Antonio Gramsci is both inspiring and tragic, beginning with Pasolini’s early poem, “The Ashes of Gramsci,” and ending with the film-maker’s murder in 1975. In his essays and films, Pasolini explores his affective, aesthetic preoccupation with the “sub-proletariat” of the Roman suburbs, contrasting it with Gramsci’s political and strategic concerns. This article analyses that material with special emphasis on its relation to Pasolini’s work on the semiotics of film and his theory of the “cinema of poetry.”

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 111-123
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English