Dark fragments: contrasting corporealities in Pasolini's La ricotta

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dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Jill
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-24T09:20:13Z
dc.date.available2018-04-24T09:20:13Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe short film La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963) tells the story of Stracci, an extra working on a film of the life of Christ, which is presented in part via tableaux vivants of Mannerist paintings. Pasolini’s film is replete with formal, stylistic and narrative binaries. In this article, I examine a particularly emphatic binary in the film in the form of the abstract, ethereal corporeality of the Mannerist paintings versus the raw and bawdy corporeality of Stracci. I show that through the reenactment of the paintings and their literal embodiment, Pasolini creates a rapprochement and, ultimately, a reversal between the divine forms created by the Mannerists and Stracci’s unremitting immanence, which, I argue, is allied to the carnivalesque and the cinematic body of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. I examine how Pasolini gradually deposes the Mannerists, and thus the art-historical excesses and erotic compulsion he feels towards the crucifixion, substituting in their place the corporeal form of Stracci in all its baseness and profanity.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationMurphy, J.(2014) 'Dark fragments: contrasting corporealities in Pasolini's La ricotta', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 7. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.7.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.7.03
dc.identifier.endpage56
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued7
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage39
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5844
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleMurphy.html
dc.rights© 2014, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectChristen
dc.subjectManneristen
dc.subjectStraccien
dc.subjectCrucifixionen
dc.subjectPier Paolo Pasolinien
dc.subjectBinaryen
dc.subjectCarnivalesqueen
dc.subjectCharlie Chaplinen
dc.subjectTableau vivanten
dc.titleDark fragments: contrasting corporealities in Pasolini's La ricottaen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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