Author: Luca PerettiEditor: Bloomsbury Publishing USAISBN: Size: 19,13 MBFormat: PDF, ePubRead: 854This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and his legacy. Over 40 years after his death Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to challenge and interest us, both in academic circles and in popular discourses. Today his films stand as lampposts of Italian cinematic production, his cinematic theories resonate broadly through academic circles, and his philosophical, essayistic, and journalistic writings-albeit relatively sparsely translated into other languages-are still widely influential. Pasolini has also become an image, a mascot, a face on tote bags, a graffiti image on walls, an adjective (pasolinian). The collected essays push us to consider and reconsider Pasolini, a thinker for the twenty-first century. Author: Patrick HanafinEditor: RoutledgeISBN: Size: 20,24 MBFormat: PDF, KindleRead: 396This volume examines the evolution of reproductive law in Italy from the `far west' of the 1980s and 90s through to one of the most potentially restrictive systems in Europe. The book employs an array of sociological, philosophical and legal material in order to discover why such a repressive piece of legislation has been produced at the end of a period of substantial change in the dynamic of gender relations in Italy.

The book also discusses Italian policy within the wider European policy framework. Author: Leonardo SciasciaEditor: Granta BooksISBN: Size: 17,85 MBFormat: PDF, KindleRead: 138On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on 18 March they said he would be tried in a 'people's court of justice'. Prologix gpib-usb drivers for mac. Seven weeks later Moro's body was discovered in the boot of a Renault parked in the crowded centre of Rome. In this book, Leonardo Sciasica, a master of detective fiction, untangles the real-life events of these crucial weeks and provides a unique insight into the dangerous world of Italian politics in the 1970s. Author: Paul GinsborgEditor: Palgrave MacmillanISBN: Size: 20,45 MBFormat: PDF, ePubRead: 828From a war-torn and poverty-stricken country, regional and predominantly agrarian, to the success story of recent years, Italy has witnessed the most profound transformation-economic, social and demographic-in its entire history.

Yet the other recurrent theme of the period has been the overwhelming need for political reform-and the repeated failure to achieve it. Professor Ginsborg's authoritative work-the first to combine social and political perspectives-is concerned with both the tremendous achievements of contemporary Italy and 'the continuities of its history that have not been easily set aside.'

At the beginning of 1975 Garzanti published a collection of critical essays, Scritti corsari (“Corsair Writings”). Pasolini was brutally murdered by being run over several times with his own car, dying on 2 November 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome. Pasolini was buried in Casarsa, in his beloved Friuli.