Learning objectives
1) To analyze, through the analysis of texts and films, the peculiarities of expressive ability used by Pier Paolo Pasolini. <br />
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2) Seizing his work in the overall insights and predictions of a critical intellectual towards establishment of his time, reflecting the topicality of his proposals. <br />
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3) Analyzing the work of an intellectual as a tool of interpretation of society. <br />
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
<p>This course presents, after a brief introduction of a general nature, the case of an Italian intellectual who has managed to address issues of social importance through different registers of expression, from poetry to the novel, essay, newspaper article, film and theater. This is Pier Paolo Pasolini. Lessons will present different materials drawn from the works of Pasolini ( frames of films, literary songs, poems, etc.) That will be placed in the body's production and society of his time. The lucid analysis of this "inconvenient intellectual " is still very topic today. The work of Pasolini will be framed in the context of communication processes and analysis of one of the current issues of Sociology of cultural processes, orality and literacy.</p>
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Full programme
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Bibliography
<p>Recommended bibliography: 1) Pozzi Alessandra e Toscani Mattia, <em>Tra il dire e lo scrivere. Saggi sull’oralità di ritorno</em>, Unicopli, 2008, limited to the essays by Pozzi,Toscani (<em>Una disperata passione di essere nel mondo</em>), De Riu, Giarelli</p>
<p>2) Bazzocchi Marco Antonio, <em>I burattini filosofi</em>, Bruno Mondadori Editore, 2007 </p>
<p>3) Pasolini Pier Paolo, a) from <em>Empirismo eretico</em>: Nuove questioni linguistiche, La volontà di Dante a essere poeta, Il cinema di poesia, La lingua scritta della realtà; b) from <em>Scritti corsari</em>: Il discorso dei capelli, Studio sulla rivoluzione antropologica in Italia, Limitatezza della storia e immensità del mondo contadino, Il romanzo elle stragi, Sviluppo e progresso, M. Daniel –A. Baudry “Gli omosessuali” c) from <em>Lettere luterane</em>: I giovani infelici, Come è mutato il linguaggio delle cose, I ragazzi sono conformisti due volte, Vivono ma dovrebbero essere morti, Siamo belli, dunque deturpiamoci, Due modeste proposte per eliminare la criminalità in Italia, Le mie proposte su scuola e tv </p>
Teaching methods
The lessons are frontal, retrace the proposed test, using computer and video projector just to propose analysis of cultural products. Ample space is given to interventions for students. You can take the exam through a traditional interview on texts in the program. Alternatively, you can write a personal relationship, which may cover a cross-cutting issue in some works, as exemplified during the lessons, or learn to read a specific work, not even mentioned in the program, provided that work is the analysis of that text (poetry, essays, narrative film) through the references of theoretical literature, in particular the part of essays (Scritti corsari, Empirismo eretico, Lettere luterane). <br />
Assessment methods and criteria
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