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L'opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini tra denuncia e mitizzazione
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Work between Denunciation and Mythicising
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Abstract
Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most controversial Italian authors of the second half of the 20th century. A very particular character in the cultural and literary Italian world, he played an important and critical part in a society tending to a total homologation. Pier Paolo Pasolini spread a ra... view more
Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most controversial Italian authors of the second half of the 20th century. A very particular character in the cultural and literary Italian world, he played an important and critical part in a society tending to a total homologation. Pier Paolo Pasolini spread a radical censure against the consumers’ culture and the social homologation. However, in his literary and cinematographic work, beside a hard realism by which he presented his cultural denunciation, it’s evident – perhaps in a contradictory way – an attempt to mythicising the “lumpenproletariat” that represented, in his opinion, the innocence and the cultural virginity that the neo-capitalistic culture was suppressing.... view less
Keywords
Italy; capitalism; denunciation; society; consumption; culture; realism; proletariat
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
homologation; "lumpenproletariat"; mythicising
Document language
Italian
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 106-110
Journal
Studii Europene (2013) 2
ISSN
2345-1041
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications