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Pasolini
General secondary reading and theory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annovi on how we should interpret his work | “The totality of Pasolini’s work should be understood as a macrostructure with Pasolini at its centre” |
| Annovi on the role of the author | "the author must thus be a revolutionary subject" |
| Pasolini with Stack on the author of film | “A film is the work of one author” |
| Barthes on "textual dispossession" | A literary text's meaning is determined by the reader rather than the author's intent, biography, or "genius." |
| Foucault on the "author-function" | The author has an active role and carefully constructed position, rather than a spontaneous creation |
| Foucalt on "founders of discursivity" | Authors (like Marx or Freud) who create more than their own work; they produce the possibilities for other texts and followers |
| White on "figural realism" | An originally theological method of oscillating between the present and the past, making a larger and more coherent narrative of the human experience |
| Viano on "a certain realism" | Pasolini insists that suffering is real but also recognises the prevalence of artificiality and uncertainty of meaning |
| Peucker on representational systems | “Film is a medium in which different representational systems may collide, may replace, but generally supplement one another" |