{"product_id":"archaic-modernism-queer-poetics-in-the-cinema-of-pier-paolo-pasolini-paperback","title":"Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Humphrey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eArchaic Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e, 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: \u003cem\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/em\u003e (1967), \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e (1969), and \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards an African Orestes\u003c\/em\u003e (1970\/1973). Considering Pasolini's own theories of a \"Cinema of Poetry\" alongside Jacques Derrida's concept of \u003cem\u003e?criture\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchaic Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e is comprised of three chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on \u003cem\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/em\u003e, assessing both the filmic language employed and the deeply queer mythological source material that haunts the tragedy even as it remains largely at a subtextual yet palpable level. Chapter 2 extends and deepens the concept of queer fate and queer negativity in a scene-by-scene analysis of \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e. Chapter 3 looks at the most obscure of Pasolini's feature length films, \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards an African Orestes\u003c\/em\u003e, a film long misunderstood as an unwitting failure, but which could perhaps best be understood as a deliberate, sacrificial act on the filmmaker's part. Considering the film as the third in an informal, maybe unconscious, trilogy, Humphrey concludes his monograph by arguing that this \"trilogy of myth\" can best be understood as a deconstruction, gradually more and more severe, of three of the most important origin tales of Western civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchaic Modernism \u003c\/em\u003emakes the case that these three films are as essential as those Pasolini films more often studied in the Anglophone world: \u003cem\u003eMamma Roma\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel According to Matthew\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeorema\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Trilogy of Life\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSal?\u003c\/em\u003e, and that they are of continuing, perhaps even increasing, value today. This book is of specific interest to scholars, students, and researchers of film and queer studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Humphrey is associate professor of film studies and women's and gender studies as well as the coordinator of the film studies program at Texas A\u0026amp;M University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eQueer Bergman: Gender, Sexuality and the European Art Film\u003c\/i\u003e and articles in \u003ci\u003eCriticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScreen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGLQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePost Script\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInvisible Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457874739453,"sku":"9780814343104","price":71.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/VWF1WXFZUU54V2ZoRzgvSm5DaUFmQT09.webp?v=1777248661","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/archaic-modernism-queer-poetics-in-the-cinema-of-pier-paolo-pasolini-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}