The "Divine Mimesis" and the Politics of Representation A lecture by Emanuela Patti, Royal Holloway, University of London In the early 1960s, Pier Paolo Pasolini started his rewriting of Dante’s Divine Comedy, La Divina Mimesis. The aim of the project was to make it a new contemporary Comedia, including circles, sins, and characters inspired by Dante. Yet the project was…
New Directions in Scholarship On the occasion of the publication of: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed A Thinker for the Twenty-First Century (2018, Bloomsbury Academic) Edited by Luca Peretti and Karen Raizen This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and…
Panelists: Ara Merjian (NYU) Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) Breixo Viejo (Columbia University) Benedikt Reichenbach (editor, English edition of Pasolini's Bodies and Places) In 1980 in Rome, two film critics - Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella - produced an elaborate, 600-page volume of images taken from Pasolini’s films and organized into an extensive taxonomy of “bodies” and “places”: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Corpi e luoghi. Reviews of…