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Orientalismo eretico. Pier Paolo Pasolini e il cinema del Terzo Mondo
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Published January 1, 2007
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December 5, 2025
This is a concise, yet dense and illuminating text concerning Pier Paolo Pasolini's engagement with the "Otherness," specifically examining his encounter with the emerging postcolonial condition considering his "Heretical Orientalism" (both conscious and unconscious) within his broader philosophical, political, and aesthetic openness.
The book establishes its theoretical framework by referencing T.S. Eliot, prioritizing a close reading of the text. This principle suggests that criticism must emerge from the text itself, rather than imposing pre-determined theory upon it. For this reason, I found the author's stated intention to distance his work from simplistic, "labeling" forms of post-colonialism to be an extremely valuable and deeply resonant insight.
Furthermore, the study's attention to the creative stylistic dimension of Pasolini's work during this engagement—simultaneously reading his films alongside the prevalent linguistics and cinematic theories of the time—while judiciously employing concepts from Said and Homi Bhabha, makes the book a short but exceptionally insightful and instructive work.
The book establishes its theoretical framework by referencing T.S. Eliot, prioritizing a close reading of the text. This principle suggests that criticism must emerge from the text itself, rather than imposing pre-determined theory upon it. For this reason, I found the author's stated intention to distance his work from simplistic, "labeling" forms of post-colonialism to be an extremely valuable and deeply resonant insight.
Furthermore, the study's attention to the creative stylistic dimension of Pasolini's work during this engagement—simultaneously reading his films alongside the prevalent linguistics and cinematic theories of the time—while judiciously employing concepts from Said and Homi Bhabha, makes the book a short but exceptionally insightful and instructive work.
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