{"product_id":"9781442656024","title":"Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life)\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In \u003ci\u003eAllegories of Contamination\u003c\/i\u003e Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and theoretical study of these films and the Marxist filmmaker's complex, original concept of the cinematic medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the three films that make up the \u003ci\u003eTrilogy of Life\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e - Pasolini attempts to recapture the aura surrounding popular, predominantly oral forms of storytelling through a pro-modern vision of innocent, unalienated bodies and pleasures. In these works Pasolini appears to abandon the explicitly political engagement that marked his earlier works - films that led him to be identified with other radical filmmakers such as Bellocchio, Bertolucci, and Godard. However, Pasolini insisted that these were his 'most ideological films,' and his political engagement translates into a mannerist, anti-classical style or what he called a 'cinema of poetry.' Rumble offers a comparative study based on the concept of 'aesthetic contamination,' which is fundamental to the understanding of Pasolini's poetics. Aesthetic contamination concerns the mediation between different cultures and different historical moments. Through stylistic experimentation, the \u003ci\u003eTrilogy of Life\u003c\/i\u003e presents a genealogy of visual codes, an interrogation of the subjectivity of narrative cinema. In these films Pasolini celebrates life, and perhaps therein lies their simple heresy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128160370928,"sku":"9781442656024","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442656024_p0.jpg?v=1763808094","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442656024","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}