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Pastrengo is a Milan-based literary agency founded on September 2016 by Francesco Sparacino and Michele Turazzi. Pastrengo represents Italian authors of fiction (commercial and literary, young adult) and non fiction.
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January 1979Ketzererfahrungen
"Empirismo eretico". Schriften zu Sprache, Literatur und Film
by Pasolini, Pier Paolo / Beiträge von Klein, Reimar; Nachwort von Klein, Reimar; Übersetzt von Klein, Reimar
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June 2008Höllisches Kino
Über Pasolini und andere
by Wojciech Kuczok, Gabriele Leupold, Dorota Stroinska
Wojciech Kuczok arbeitet seit Jahren als Filmkritiker, an der Verfilmung seines preisgekrönten Erfolgsromans Dreckskerl war er als Kameramann und Drehbuchautor beteiligt. Nun widmet er sich in fünfzehn Essays Filmen, die an Tabus rühren und die Schwelle des Erträglichen überschreiten. Von Pasolini bis Haneke, von Lars von Trier bis Greenaway folgt er der Spur des Bösen in den Bildern. Im anarchischen Impuls eines Pasolini oder Noé, in der antimoralischen Geste sieht er einen Akt der künstlerischen Souveränität, die sich einzig dem Willen zur Wahrhaftigkeit verpflichtet fühlt. Leidenschaftlich verdichtet Kuczok das Nachdenken über die Höllenfahrten im Kino zu Parabeln über elementare Themen wie Liebe, Sexualität und Tod.
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The ArtsSeptember 2015Film modernism
by Sam Rohdie
This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism, contradiction, desire, destructuring and writing. Each category, though autonomous, interacts, intersects and juxtaposes with the others, entering into a dialogue with them and in so doing creates connections, illuminations, associations and rhymes which may not have arisen in a more conventional framework. The author refers to particular films and directors that raise questions related to modernism, and, inevitably, thereby to classicism. Jean-Luc Godard's work is at the centre of the book, though it spreads out, evokes and echoes other filmmakers and their work, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, João César Monteiro, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Orson Welles. This innovative and eloquently written text book will be an essential resource for all film students. ;
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The ArtsApril 2010Cinema - Italy
by Stefania Parigi, Des O'Rawe
A journey to the Italian cinema that overturns established views and opens up new perspectives and interpretations. Its itinerary is organized in four stages. The first is an analysis of the theories of Cesare Zavattini on neorealism which overturns widely accepted positions both on Zavattini and on neorealism. The second confronts a key film of the post-war Italian cinema, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà, by examining the nature of its realism. The third is dedicated to Luchino Visconti: to questions of the use of language exemplified in his La terra trema, the use of settings, costume and light as agents of meaning in his Il Gattopardo and Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa. The final voyage of the film is to the physical and symbolic construction of heaven and earth in the work of Pasolini. Particular attention is given to the representation of the body in his last four films: the grotesque and mythical bodies in popular tradition in his Trilogia di vita and the tortured bodies destroyed by the mass media in Salò. ;
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Cinema - Italy
by Stefania Parigi, Des O'Rawe
A journey to the Italian cinema that overturns established views and opens up new perspectives and interpretations. Its itinerary is organized in four stages. The first is an analysis of the theories of Cesare Zavattini on neorealism which overturns widely accepted positions both on Zavattini and on neorealism. The second confronts a key film of the post-war Italian cinema, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà, by examining the nature of its realism. The third is dedicated to Luchino Visconti: to questions of the use of language exemplified in his La terra trema, the use of settings, costume and light as agents of meaning in his Il Gattopardo and Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa. The final voyage of the film is to the physical and symbolic construction of heaven and earth in the work of Pasolini. Particular attention is given to the representation of the body in his last four films: the grotesque and mythical bodies in popular tradition in his Trilogia di vita and the tortured bodies destroyed by the mass media in Salò.
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Travel writingBlu Palinuro
by Isabel Parreño
Blu Palinuro is a slow-paced literary passport to Italy. In this book Isabel Parreño weaves her way around the sights of a magical, mysterious and resilient Italy and takes us from bustling Venice to the unknown island of Pantelleria. A fresh and delicate field guide to discover Italy through anecdotes and curiosities about Dante, Petrarch, Hugo Pratt, Elena Ferrante, Pasolini and Elsa Morante, among many others.
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Media studiesOctober 2021Communico
Languages, Images, Algorithms
by Mario Ricciardi
The book traces a wide-ranging overview of communication: a cultural dimension in which different knowledge converges and merges. The author takes into consideration numerous voices – from McLuhan to Barthes, from Pasolini to Castells, just to name a few – to analyse, first, the processes of civilization from the alphabet to digital technology and to show, then, how the media system takes over society and how, in the age of mass consumption, the critical role of public opinion is weakened by market and advertising. Finally, attention shifts to the leap that leads to our days: the algorithm is the pervasive and dominant technology, the personalization operated by digital communication produces new forms of individual mythologies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesThe black sea of indifference
by Liliana Segre / Filippo Civati
Liliana Segre’s testimony and her political message are shared in this essay by Giuseppe Civati that reports her words and her teachings, on the occasion of her appointment as lifetime Italian Senator by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.Segre was expelled from school in 1938. She tried to flee Italy as an asylum seeker but was denied protection and was sent back. On January 30th, 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her father Alberto, who deceased in the concentration camp. In the last thirty years she has been promoting an extraordinary campaign against indifference and against racism in any form or aspect.Her undisputed, strong and clear words are a message for girls and boys, her «ideal grandchildren»: we must never lose our rights and respect for people.
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September 2021The Devil and the Dolce Vita
Catholic Attempts to Save Italy's Soul, 1948-1974
by Roy Domenico
Italy’s economic expansion after World War Two triggered significant social and cultural change. Secularization accompanied this development and triggered alarm bells across the nation’s immense Catholic community. The Devil and the Dolce Vita is the story of that community – the church of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI, the lay Catholic Action association, and the Christian Democratic Party – and their efforts in a series of culture wars to preserve a traditional way of life and to engage and tame the challenges of a rapidly modernizing society. Roy Domenico begins this study during the heady days of the April 1948 Christian Democratic electoral triumph and ends when pro-divorce forces dealt the Catholics a defeat in the referendum of May 1974 where their hopes crashed and probably ended. Between those two dates Catholics engaged secularists in a number of battles – many over film and television censorship, encountering such figures as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Venice Film Festival became a locus in the fight as did places like Pozzonovo, near Padua, where the Catholics directed their energies against a Communist youth organization; and Prato in Tuscany where the bishop led a fight to preserve church weddings. Concern with proper decorum led to more skirmishes on beaches and at resorts over modest attire and beauty pageants. By the 1960s and 1970s other issues, such as feminism, a new frankness about sexual relations, and the youth rebellion emerged to contribute to a perfect storm that led to the divorce referendum and widespread despair in the Catholic camp.
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Society & culture: generalApril 2017The New Populism
Democracy Stares into the Abyss
by Marco Revelli
A crisp and trenchant dissection of populism today. The word “populism” has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to Trump and from Podemos to Brexit, the electoral earthquakes of recent years have often been grouped under this term. But what actually defines “populism”? Is it an ideology, a form of organisation, or a mentality? Marco Revelli seeks to answer this question by getting to grips with the historical dynamics of so-called “populist” movements. While in the early days of democracy, populism sought to represent classes and social layers that asserted their political roles for the first time, in today’s post-democratic climate, it instead expresses the grievances of those who had until recently felt that they were included. Having lost their power, the disinherited embrace not a political alternative to –isms like liberalism or socialism, but a populist mood of discontent. The new populism is the “formless form” that protest and grievance assume in the era of financialisation, in the era where the atomised masses lack voice or organisation. For Revelli, this new populism is the child of an age in which the Left has been hollowed out and lost its capacity to offer an alternative. (From the Verso Books presentation)
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureNovember 2020Kafka en Maracaná
90 partidos. 90 autores. 90 relatos
by David García Cames, Miguel Ángel Ortiz and Marcel Beltran
Football breaks down all doors, including those of literature. Contrary to popular belief, there are many writers who at some point were attracted by the mystery of the goal or the fervor of the stands. The ball sneaks into the work and life of authors who have built bridges between these two apparently dissociated worlds. From Marguerite Duras to Eduardo Galeano, passing through Albert Camus, Roberto Bolaño, Svetlana Aleksiévich or Federico García Lorca. This book is 90 games that were played one day. This book is made up of 90 stories, halfway between the chronicle and the tale, with which tribute is paid to 90 extraordinary creators who have influenced our way of understanding football.
