title: Pier Paolo Pasolini and His Myth: ‘The Trilogy of Life’ Half a Century Later
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metadata.value: Foortai, Francisca
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metadata.value: 2022-05-05T14:58:01Z
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metadata.value: 2022-05-05T14:58:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Foortai, Francisca. “Pier Paolo Pasolini and His Myth: ‘The Trilogy of Life’ Half a Century Later”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 1 (2022): 50–68.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36262
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metadata.value: The article attempts to analyze Pasolini’s great trilogy, which includes the films “Decameron”,
  “Canterbury Tales”, and “Flower of the Thousand and One Nights”, taking into account the distance
  of half a century. This article shows the multi-layered nature of a great work of art, which
  serves as the basis for different understandings and evaluations of these works that took place
  during the life of Pasolini and decades after his tragic and mysterious death. The article also
  draws attention to difference in the methods of artistic expression between the elements of the
  literary image (phonemes) and cinematic visuality (kinemas), with which Pasolini experimented.
  Not agreeing with the established point of view that compares the “Trilogy of Life” with
  Dante’s division of hell, purgatory, and paradise, the author believes that Pasolini’s films based on
  literary works are not correctly considered as analogies with the metaphysical, “vertical” journey
  of Dante to the postmortem worlds. On the contrary, the movements in Pasolini’s trilogy —
  South, North-West, East — are “horizontal”, terrestrial, and even chronologically almost identical.
  Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” is rather three life modules that a person meets, in which “Decameron”
  is everyday life in its relationship with art (we see a similar situation in “Andrey Rublev”
  by A. Tarkovsky). “Canterbury Tales” is an expression of the joy of life associated with the comical
  nature of human corporeality. “Flower of the Thousand and One Nights” is a dream or tale
  about conquering love, in the entourage of the charming East, seen through the eyes of a European.
  This is why these films can rightly be called the “Trilogy of Life”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Italian cinema
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “Trilogy of life”
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: marginal-passionary
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: phonemes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: kinemas
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: film image
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: philosophy of life
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: auteur cinema
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semiotics of cinema
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Pier Paolo Pasolini and His Myth: ‘The Trilogy of Life’ Half a Century Later
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