Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome

by John David Rhodes

John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini--but it's not the classical Rome you imagine. Stupendous, Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-century Roman urban development. The book focuses first on the Fascist period, when populations were moved out of the urban center and into public housing on the periphery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816649308
• ISBN13: 9780816649303
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"