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Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Posted By: roxul
Date: 12 Aug 2023 15:18:50
Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Daniel Humphrey, "Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini "
English | ISBN: 0814346065 | 2020 | 186 pages | EPUB | 4 MB

In Archaic Modernism, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini: Oedipus Rex (1967), Medea (1969), and Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970/1973). Considering Pasolini's own theories of a "Cinema of Poetry" alongside Jacques Derrida's concept of écriture, as well as more recent scholarship by queer theory scholars advocating for an antirelational and antisocial subjectivity, Humphrey maintains that Pasolini's Greek tragedy films exemplify a paradoxical sense of "archaic modernism" that is at the very heart of the filmmaker's project. More daringly, he contends that they ultimately reveal the queer roots of Western civilization's formative texts.



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