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Bernhart Schwenk and Michael Semff, eds. Pier Poolo Posolini and Death.(Book review)

Bernhart Schwenk and Michael Semff, eds. Pier Poolo Posolini and Death, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, 2.08 pp., ill. col. & b. & w.

Anyone convicted of blasphemy cannot be all that bad. The reasons for Pier Paolo Pasolini's censure by the Roman Catholic Church were not so much that he disparaged Christianity as his films demonstrated a dark terror underlying Catholic order. The church was right to denounce such films as La Riccota (1962) and Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964): the formal strategies Pasolini deployed submitted the bodies of Christ and his apostles to such corporeal excess that they became prosaic. ...

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