Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life

by Patrick Rumble

The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and theoretical study of these films and the Marxist filmmaker's complex, original concept of the cinematic medium.

With the three films that make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802072194
• ISBN13: 9780802072191
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"