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DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: BOURGEOIS CULTURE, THE THIRD WORLD, AND MEDIA COURSE BROCHURE 1 UNIT DESCRIPTION: PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: BOURGEOIS CULTURE, THE THIRD WORLD, AND MEDIA Unit code: 4ITPP Unit Convenor and Tutor: Dr Donatella Maraschin This module will focus on Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most wide-ranging authors in post-war Italian culture. When he was murdered in 1975 he was only 53 years old, but had already published 18 collections of poems; 7 novels; 4 volumes of essays on literature, the history of language and semiotics; and 3 collections of journalistic articles on politics, popular culture and social issues. He had also directed 22 films as well as written 16 plays and 24 screenplays. Since his death, some 18 further volumes containing hitherto unseen short stories, novels, plays and essays have also been published. The module will investigate the main concerns of Pasolini’s artistic production: the critique of the bourgeois culture; the myth of ‘other’ cultures and non-industrialised societies; and the assessment of the political and anthropological changes brought about by the consumerist society of 1960s and 1970s Italy. Pasolini explored these themes through a variety of media: particular attention will be paid to this, and to his image of himself as a media intellectual, who aimed thereby to reach a greater number and range of readers and spectators. The multimedia project of Teorema; the collection of poems Poesia in forma di rosa; the films Appunti per un’Orestiade africana, Medea and Salo’ e le 120 giornate di Sodoma; and the collection of journalistic articles Scritti corsari will be the focus of the course. The unit will be taught throughout the Autumn and Lent Term of the Final Year, with classes – a combination of informal lectures and seminars - meeting once a week for a two-hour slot. Film viewing will also be arranged in accordance with the classes’ topics. Final examination format: 3 essays. Contact hours: 40(AT – 20; ST – 20; year 4) Number of essays: 2 2 COURSE BREAKDOWN AUTUMN TERM [10 CLASSES = 20 HOURS] · Introduction [2 classes] 1) Pasolini’s life and his work 2) Cultural and political background · Critique of the bourgeois culture [5 classes] 1) Cultural, political and symbolic values of the middle class 2 & 3) Use of media and experimentalism in Teorema: the novel and the film 4 & 5) The middle class, class struggle and revolution. Readings from Teorema, Le ceneri di Gramsci and other works · Pasolini and the Media [2 classes] 1) Post-war media intellectual 2) Subjectivity and the Media Readings from Scritti corsari and other journalistic works · Conclusions [1 class] SPRING TERM [10 CLASSES = 20 HOURS] · The Myth of Third World countries [5 classes] 1) Friuli, the Roman ‘borgate’and non-industrial societies Readings from Poesie in forma di rosa 2) Field research techniques: novels, documentary films and location scouting for feature films 3) Appunti per un’Orestiade africana 4) Medea 5) Comparison of two models of interaction between different cultures · Consumerist society [3 classes] 1) Assessment of the political and anthropological changes brought about by the consumerist society in 1960’s Italy 2) Scritti corsari 3) Salo’ e le 120 giornate di Sodoma · Conclusions [1 class] 3 ASSESSED ESSAYS AND EXAMINATION Students are required to produce one essay per term. Essays on Autumn Term work are due by 4 pm on Tuesday 11 January 2005. Essays on Spring Term work are due by 4 pm on Thursday 17 March 2005. Please see the Department’s Final Year Handbook for the University’s rules on late submission of work. Essays must be submitted to Mrs Whyte’s office (Room 70). Essays must be on paper and in duplicate: word-processing is strongly recommended, but we cannot accept essays in electronic form. When handing in essays, students must also sign a submission form fro this piece of work, declaring that this is all their own work (please see the Final Year Handbook for the University’s rules on plagiarism). Copies of this form are available in Room 70. Students should obtain a receipt for their essays. The final examination consists of a 3-hours paper with 3 questions on different aspects of Pasolini’s work. ESSAYS TITLES LENT TERM 1. Discuss Pasolini’s own definition of the multimedia- project Teorema as “inchiesta” and its style as “squallida prosa dell’attualita’”. 2. Discuss Pasolini’s critique of the bourgeois culture and his utopia of a social revolution in the light of Teorema and other works by the author. 3. In which sense Pasolini can be defined as a media intellectual? AUTUMN TERM 1. How did Pasolini’s discovery of the Roman ‘borgate’ and of Third World countries contribute to his idealisation of non-industrial societies and his use of new research techniques? 2. Discuss how Pasolini’s interests in anthropological issues related to the collision between non-industrial societies and Western culture, in the light of the poems collected in Poesie in forma di rosa and the films Appunti per un’Orestiade africana and Medea. 3. What does Pasolini’s condemn of the consumerist society and why? Compare and contrast the statements expressed by the author in Appunti per un’Orestiade africana, Medea, Salo’ e le 120 giornate di Sodoma and other works. 4 BIBLIOGRAPHY WORKS BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Accattone / prefazione di Carlo Levi, 1961 - MAIN 791.437-ACC/PAS Affabulazione; Pilade, 1977 – MAIN 853.914-PAS Ali dagli occhi azzurri, 1965 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Amado mio; preceduto da Atti impuri / con uno scritto di Attilio Bertolucci, 1982 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Belle bandiere, 1977 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Bestemmia: tutte le poesie / a cura di Graziella Chiarcossi e Walter Siti, prefazione di Giovanni Giudici, 1993, 2 v. - MAIN 853.914-PAS 1/853.914-PAS 2 Calderon, 1973 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Canzoniere italiano, 1972, Vol. 1 - MAIN 850.82-PAS Canzoniere italiano, 1972, Vol. 2 - MAIN 850.82-PAS Il caos / a cura di Gian Carlo Ferretti, 1979 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Con Pier Paolo Pasolini / a cura di Enrico Magrelli, 1977 - MAIN 791.430945-PAS Da Accattone a Salò: 120 scritti sul cinema / presentati da Vittorio Boarini, Pietro Bonfiglioli, Giorgio Cremonini - MAIN 791.430945-PAS Dal diario (1945-47) / introduzione di Leonardo Sciascia, 1979 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Descrizioni di descrizioni / a cura di Graziella Chiarcossi, 1979 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Divina mimesis, 1975 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Empirismo eretico, 1972 - MAIN 809-PAS I film degli altri / a cura di Tullio Kezich, 1996 - MAIN 791.430945-PAS Interviste corsare sulla politica e sulla vita, 1955 - 1975 / a cura de Michele Gulinucci, 1995 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Lettere, 1940-1954: con una cronologia della vita e delle opere / a cura di Nico Naldini, 1986 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Lettere, 1955-1975: con una cronologia della vita e delle opere / a cura di Nico Naldini, 1988 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Lettere agli amici, 1976 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Lettere luterane, 1976 - MAIN 853.914 Lutheran letters / translated by Stuart Hood, 1983 - BULMERSHE 791.4092- PAS 5 The letters of Pier Paolo Pasolini 1940-1954/ edited by Nico Naldini; translated by Stuart Hood, Vol 1, 1992 - BULMERSHE 791.4092-PAS La meglio gioventú / a cura di Antonio Arveda, 1998 - MAIN 853.914-PAS La nuova gioventú: poesie friulane 1941-1974, 1981 – MAIN 853.914-PAS Oedipus rex, 1971 - BULMERSHE 791.437-OED Pasolini on Pasolini: interviews with Oswald Stack, 1969 - MAIN 791.430945-PAS & BULMERSHE 791.4092-PAS Passione e ideologia, 1973 - MAIN 851.91209-PAS Passione e ideologia: (1948-1958) / con saggio introduttivo di Cesare Segre, 1985 - MAIN 851.91209-PAS Passione e ideologia : Saggi, 1960 - MAIN 851.91209-PAS Per il cinema / con due scritti di Bernardo Bertolucci e Mario Martone e un saggio introduttivo di Vincenzo Cerami; cronologia a cura di Nico Naldini, 2001 I meridiani, 2 v. - MAIN 853.914-PAS T. 1 & MAIN 853.914- PAS T. 2 Poesia in forma di rosa, 1964 – MAIN 853.914-PAS Poesia popolare italiana, 1960 - MAIN 851.09-PAS Poesie, 1975 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Poesie dimenticate, 1965 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Poesie e pagine ritrovate / a cura di Andrea Zanzotto, Nico Naldini, 1980 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Porcile; Orgia: Bestia da stile, 1979 – MAIN 853.914-PAS Il portico della morte / a cura di Cesare Segre, 1988 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Ragazzi di vita / con in appendice: “Il metodo di lavoro” e “I parlanti”, 1981 - MAIN 853.914-PAS La religione del mio tempo, 1982 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Roman poems / translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Francesca Valente, 1986 - BULMERSHE 851-PAS Romàns / seguito da un articolo per il "Progresso" e “Operetta Marina” / a cura di Nico Naldini, 1994 – MAIN 853.914-PAS Romanzi e racconti / a cura di Walter Siti e Silvia De Laude, 1998 I Meridiani, 2 v. – MAIN 853.914-PAS VOL.1 & 853.914-PAS VOL.2 Saggi sulla letteratura e sull'arte / a cura di Walter Siti, Silvia De Laude; con un saggio di Cesare Segre; cronologia a cura di Nico Naldini, 1999 I Meridiani, 2 v. - MAIN 853.914-PAS VOL. 1 & MAIN 853.914-PAS VOL. 2 6 Saggi sulla politica e sulla società / a cura di Walter Siti, Silvia De Laude; con un saggio di Piergiorgio Bellocchio; cronologia a cura di Nico Naldini, 1999 I Meridiani - MAIN 853.914-PAS San Paolo [progetto per un film su San Paolo], 1977 – MAIN 791.437- SAN/PAS Scritti corsari, 1975 - MAIN 853.914-PAS Selected poems / translated by Norman MacAfee and Luciano Martinengo; with a foreword by Enzo Siciliano, 1984 – MAIN 853.914-PAS Sette poesie e due lettere / a cura di Rienzo Colla, 1985 - MAIN 853.914- PAS Il sogno del centauro / a cura di Jean Duflot,