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An Italian film radical shown in rich context for the first time.



STUPENDOUS, MISERABLE CITY: Pasolini¹s Rome

John David Rhodes

University of Minnesota Press | 240 pages | 2007

ISBN 978-0-8166-4929-7 | hardcover | $60.00

ISBN 978-0-8166-4930-3 | paperback | $20.00



John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this in-depth

examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini‹but it¹s not

the classical Rome you imagine. Discussing films such as Accattone, Mamma

Roma, and The Hawks and the Sparrows, Rhodes shows how Pasolini used the

public housing on the periphery of the city to draw attention to the

contemptuous treatment of Rome¹s poor.



³In this remarkable book, John David Rhodes makes an invaluable contribution

to scholarship on cinema and the city. Analyzing Pier Paolo Pasolini¹s Rome

films and his political and emotional engagement with the city, Rhodes has

provided a fascinating and moving background to this period of Pasolini¹s

life, vision, and politics.² ‹Laura Mulvey



For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book¹s

webpage:

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/rhodes_stupendous.html



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