Pasolini : : The Sacred Flesh / / Stefania Benini.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Benini, Stefania,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini examines his corporeal vision of the sacred, focusing on his immanent interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and the "sacred flesh" of Christ in both Passion and Death as the subproletarian flesh of the outcast at the margins of capitalism.By investigating the many crucifixions within Pasolini's poems, novels, films, cinematic scripts and treatments, as well as his subversive hagiographies of criminal or crazed saints, Benini illuminates the radical politics embedded within Pasolini's adoption of Christian themes. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Ernesto De Martino, Mircea Eliade, Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, and Slavoj Žižek, she shows how Pasolini's meditation on the disappearance of the sacred in our times and its return as a haunting revenant, a threatening disruption of capitalist society, foreshadows current debates on the status of the sacred in our postmodern world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions and Credits -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Sense of the Sacred -- Chapter Two. The Passion and the Incarnation: Ricotta and The Gospel according to Matthew -- Chapter Three. The Words of the Flesh: Blasphemy -- Chapter Four. The Mad Saint and the Anchorite: Theorem -- Chapter Five. The Franciscan Model -- Chapter Six. The Pauline Model -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Films and Screenplays -- Index of Subjects