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- Title
The Politics of Film Form: Observations on Pasolini's Theory and Practice.
- Authors
Orr, Christopher
- Abstract
The article examines the theoretical essays "Observations on the Sequence Shot" and "The Cinema of Poetry," by Pier Paolo Pasolini. According to the author, the essays are the most important theoretical statements of Pasolini on film form and these strike most readers as contradictory and mystifying. He notes that Pasolini attempted to develop an alternative Marxist aesthetics in the two essays. Moreover, the article compares Pasolini's film theories with Andŕe Bazin theories due to their assumptions on the ontology of the cinematic image. Finally, it analyzes Pasolini's theory from the perspective of the Marxist aesthetic tradition associated with the name of György Lukacs.
- Subjects
FILM criticism; FILM theory; ESSAYS; COMMUNIST aesthetics; COMMUNISM &; art; MARXIST philosophy; BAZIN, Andre, 1918-1958; PASOLINI, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975; LUKACS, Gyorgy, 1885-1971
- Publication
Film Criticism, 1991, Vol 15, Issue 2, p38
- ISSN
0163-5069
- Publication type
Article