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Imagens da urbanidade e a cidade-síntese africana na Oréstia, de Pier Paolo Pasolini
Images of urbanity and the African city-synthesis in Orestia, by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Abstract
The text analyzes historically the presentation of African cities in the film Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana (1969), by filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (PPP), which proposes a historical-mythical interpretation of late 1960's Africa through the Aeschylus’s The Oresteia. PPP uses the play to interpr... view more
The text analyzes historically the presentation of African cities in the film Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana (1969), by filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (PPP), which proposes a historical-mythical interpretation of late 1960's Africa through the Aeschylus’s The Oresteia. PPP uses the play to interpret the historical transformations of Africa at that time, portraying urban environments as "neocapitalist", but identifying too in these the signs of archaic culture that showed the resistance of what he called the "Third World" subproletarian culture. We analyze the tropes and icons used as ethnographic keys of interpreting the "other" in the PPP's film and texts. Using iconology and narratology we address the following questions: What is the uniqueness of urbans landscapes presented by PPP? What were and where were the tropes mobilized by the filmmaker? What is the way of seeing/thinking African and Italian otherness of the late 1960s?... view less
Classification
History
Free Keywords
Pier Paolo Pasolini; history of visual culture of cities; Film and History
Document language
Portuguese
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 446-474
Journal
Revista Maracanan (2020) 24
ISSN
2359-0092
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0