Pasolini – Utopias and Obsessions
Abstract
A book review of Piotr Kletowski’s Pier Paolo Pasolini. Twórczość filmowa [Pier Paolo Pasolini: His Work in Film] (2013). This is the first monograph of such width and richness to be published in Poland on a director considered to be one of the greatest artists of the world cinema. The author focuses on Kletowski’s research method, which takes into the consideration all kinds of aspects of Pasolini’s creative work (especially film and literature), and seeks to find a balance between the aesthetic and philosophical coherence of his work and their immanent paradoxes and contradictions, which drive its dynamics. In effect a dialectic between Christian thought and Marxism turn out to be the key to the interpretation of the work of the great master.
Keywords:
Piotr Kletowski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Christian thought, marxismReferences
Kletowski, Piotr. 2013. Pier Paolo Pasolini. Twórczość filmowa. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Akademickie Sedno.
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Teresa Rutkowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Editor-in-chief of Kwartalnik Filmowy; translator. She is employed at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Film and Audiovisual Arts at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). She publishes articles in Kwartalnik Filmowy and book reviews in the monthly magazine Nowe Książki. Her areas of interest include the film narration and the relationship between image and word in film.
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