{"product_id":"stupendous-miserable-city-pasolinis-rome-paperback","title":"Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn David Rhodes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn 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. \u003ci\u003eStupendous, Miserable City\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eborgate, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussing films such as \u003ci\u003eAccattone, Mamma Roma, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hawks and the Sparrows, \u003c\/i\u003e Rhodes shows how Pasolini used the \u003ci\u003eborgate\u003c\/i\u003e to critique Roman urban planning and neorealism and to draw attention to the contemptuous treatment of Rome's poor. To Pasolini, the \u003ci\u003eborgate, \u003c\/i\u003e rich in human incident, linguistic difference, and squalor, \"were life\"-and now his passion can be appreciated fully for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarefully 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn David Rhodes is lecturer in literature and visual culture at the University of Sussex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.99 x 5.88 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52710331318579,"sku":"9780816649303","price":48.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cW56R3p2TmkrY29CelhabisvOGxuQT09.webp?v=1763488908","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/stupendous-miserable-city-pasolinis-rome-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}