Poetry of Squalor: Exploring the borgata in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accattone

Jenna  Ng

Poetry of Squalor: Exploring the borgata in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accattone

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Abstract

This essay focuses on Pasolini’s cinematic representation of the Roman slums, or the borgate, in Accattone by analysing on various levels its significance as a specific topographical space. My primary argument is that Pasolini’s alternate take on the borgate, replete with myth, utopian idealism and ideological ambition, nonetheless remains a flawed striving of romanticism,whose redemption remains out of reach, and whose doom is inescapable.

Original language	English
Journal	Opticon 1826
Volume	2
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

cinema and the city

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