Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed ― A Thinker for the Twenty-first Century

This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and his legacy. Over 40 years after his death Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to challenge and interest us, both in academic circles and in popular discourses. Today his films stand as lampposts of Italian cinematic production, his cinematic theories resonate broadly through academic circles, and his philosophical, essayistic, and journalistic writings-albeit relatively sparsely translated into other languages-are still widely influential. Pasolini has also become an image, a mascot, a face on tote bags, a graffiti image on walls, an adjective (pasolinian). The collected essays push us to consider and reconsider Pasolini, a thinker for the twenty-first century.

Luca Peretti is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Contemporary Italian Studies at Ohio State University, USA. He works on film history, non-fiction cinema, Jewish Italian culture, and Italian intellectual history. He co-edited a volume on terrorism and cinema and has published for, among others, Senses of Cinema, The Italianist: Film Issue, Cinema e storia. He is also a freelance journalist.

Karen T. Raizen is Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bard College, USA. Her research focuses mainly on aesthetics and language in baroque opera and theater; her current book project explores the diffusion and evolution of the figure of Pulcinella from the Commedia dell'Arte tradition. Her publications have appeared in I Tatti Studies, Italica, and Senses of Cinema, among others. She also works as a translator and editor.