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

by Daniel Humphrey

Book Overview

Detailed textual readings evoking the archaic sensibility and modernist style of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814343104
• ISBN13: 9780814343104
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"