Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe : Between Utopia and Nihilism ISBN: 9781443824316 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Fine Arts;
The present collection of essays brings into dialogue Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922OCo1975) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945OCo1982) by comparing their cultural and intellectual legacy. Pasolini and Fassbinder are amongst the last radical filmmakers to have emerged in Europe. Born in Italy and Germany, they inherited a traumatic social and political past which is reflected in their works through a number of similarly articulated and unresolved tensions: high and popular cultures, theatre, literatur..."