{"product_id":"allegories-of-contamination-9780802072191","title":"Allegories of Contamination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life)\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eAllegories of Contamination\u003c\/em\u003e Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and theoretical study of these films and the Marxist filmmaker's complex, original concept of the cinematic medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the three films that make up the \u003cem\u003eTrilogy of Life\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cem\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e – Pasolini attempts to recapture the aura surrounding popular, predominantly oral forms of storytelling through a pro-modern vision of innocent, unalienated bodies and pleasures. In these works Pasolini appears to abandon the explicitly political engagement that marked his earlier works - films that led him to be identified with other radical filmmakers su\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359184814423,"sku":"9780802072191","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802072191.jpg?v=1754123918","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/allegories-of-contamination-9780802072191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}