BFI Pasolini Study Day Talks Online!

Screenshot from Porcile/Pigsty (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969). Listen to Filippo Trentins talk on this film from the BFI Pasolini Study Day, April 20, 2012.

Thanks to Dan North, following its recent film studies podcasts entry, Film Studies For Free learned that all the talks from the British Film Institutes Pasolini Study Day, held on Saturday April 20, 2012, are freely available to listen to and download from iTunes U. Evviva!

All details and links to this fabulous resource are given below. Thanks to the BFI, as well as to FSFFs lovely colleagues at the University of Sussex -- especially to renowned Pasolini scholar and World Picture co-editor John David Rhodes -- for organising the day.

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Resource Description

Stimulating and engaging programme of talks, discussions and screenings (hosted in collaboration with the University of Sussex’s Centre for Visual Fields and School of English) exploring the work and thought of Pasolini, one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation and a fiercely original – and controversial – public figure. A prestigious line-up of speakers includes Adam Chodzko, Rosalind Galt, Robert Gordon, Matilde Nardelli, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Tony Rayns, John David Rhodes, Filippo Trentin and his favourite actor: Ninetto Davoli. 

	Name	Description	Time	Price
1	Introduction (John David Rhodes)	--	10:18	Free	View In iTunes
2	Pasolini’s Worldliness (Rosalind Galt)	--	32:37	Free	View In iTunes
3	Why Pasolini Mattered - And Still Does (Geoffrey Nowell-Smith)	--	26:29	Free	View In iTunes
4	Pasolini as Imaginary Jew: from Palestine to Persecution (Robert Gordon)	--	35:32	Free	View In iTunes
5	Discussion (with Rosalind Galt, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Robert Gordon)	--	9:48	Free	View In iTunes
6	Between Screen and Canvas: Pasolini, the Cinematic and the Pictorial (Matilde Nardelli)	--	28:39	Free	View In iTunes
7	Pasolinis Frozen Dialectic: the Allegorical Gaze in Porcile (Filippo Trentin)	--	31:57	Free	View In iTunes
8	Roundtable	--	39:36	Free	View In iTunes
9	Ninetto Davoli in conversation with Dr. John David Rhodes	--	38:55	Free	View In iTunes
10	Powerpoint slides for PASOLINI STUDY DAY	--	--	Free	View In iTunes

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Bellocchio Bertolucci Pasolini Verga and beyond Italian Cinema research from new look eScholarship org uc

Image from I pugni in tasca/Fists in pocket (Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 1965).
See Deborah Youngs short essay on this film here.

Heres another post to celebrate Open Access Week, just in the nick of time.

Film Studies For Free, tipping its jaunty e-hat to the fabulous weblog Open Access News for the information, has been delighted today to revisit the eScholarship archive of the University of California, which has had a makeover. Heres the explanation of the whys and wherefores. FSFF can happily testify that it is now even more user-friendly than before, so do please explore it.

To celebrate, heres a little crop of wonderful, openly-accessible articles on Italian cinema, all published in the UCLA journal Carte Italiane, that FSFF was able to harvest in a even shorter jiffy than usual.

• Sarah A. Carey, Before and After the Revolution: The Power(lessness) of the Image in I pugni in tasca, Buongiorno, notte, Prima della rivoluzione and The Dreamers, Carte Italiane, 2:4, 2008

• Brendan W. Hennessy, A Cinematic Premonition of Disorder: Social and Political Satire in Bellocchios La cina è vicina (1967), Carte Italiane, 2:4, 2008
  

• Antonio Idini, Stealing Home: Flight from Exile in Il ladro di bambini, Carte Italiane, 1:14, 1994

• Peggy Kidney, Recent Publications in the Field of Italian Cinema, Carte Italiane, 1:7, 1986

• David Pendleton, Pasolinis Cinema of Regression, Carte Italiane, 1:12, 1992

• Dana Renga, Womens Place: Contradictory Models of Female Behavior in Italian Cinema (1932-1940), Carte Italiane, 1:16, 1999

• Robert Spiegel, Verga and the Realist Cinema, Carte Italiane, 1:2, 1981

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