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Article: Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, Sex, the Self, and the Sacred. Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2008
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Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, Sex, the Self, and the Sacred. Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2007.
This is the first extended study of female character in Pasolini's cinema. The author states in the Introduction that her intent is to explore the concepts of innocence and authenticity present in the films' female characters, qualities that stand in diametrical opposition to the desecration of the modern bourgeois, neo-capitalist and patriarchal culture. The topic is to be viewed through the prism of the director's selfhood and bourgeois identity and "the fundamental gender divide that influenced his individuation as a child and his ...
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