Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Chronology ix
5. Illustrations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Pier Paolo, My Cousin ... 14
8. Pasolini's 'Roman Novels/ the Italian Communist Party, and the Events of 1956 22
9. Pasolini, Zanzotto, and the Question of Pedagogy 40
10. Pasolini's 'Second Victory' 56
11. Free/Indirect/Discourse 78
12. The Body of Pasolini's Semiotics: A Sequel Twenty Years Later 88
13. Toward a Materialist Linguistics: Pasolini's Theory of Language 106
14. A Genial Analytic Mind: 'Film' and 'Cinema' in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Film Theory 127
15. Manifesto for a New Theatre 152
16. Accattone and Mamma Roma 171
17. To Film a Gospel... and Advent of the Theoretical Stranger 180
18. Stylistic Contamination in the Trilogia della vita: The Case of Il fiore delle milk e una notte 210
19. Said: The Refusal to Consume 232
20. Tetis 243
21. Bibliography 251
22. Filmography 254
23. Contributors 256