{"product_id":"arabian-nights-a-queer-film-classic-paperback","title":"Arabian Nights: A Queer Film Classic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Moon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Queer Film Classic on 1974's \u003ci\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the controversial Italian director who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1975.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready internationally distinguished as a poet, novelist, and outspoken social critic of the postwar period, Pasolini turned to filmmaking around 1960. In little more than a decade, he produced one of the most remarkable bodies of work in cinema history, beginning with his early film-portraits of the struggles of underclass youths and extending through his adaptations of such sacred or mythic narratives as the stories of Oedipus and Medea and the Gospel of St. Matthew. In what turned out to be the last years of his career, Pasolini turned to several classic works of chain-narrative--\u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, \u003c\/i\u003e and Sade's \u003ci\u003eThe 120 Days of Sodom\u003c\/i\u003e--as models for his own radical expansion of cinema's capacities for telling, showing, and enacting embodiment, nudity, and sexual desires and behaviors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the legacy and context of \u003ci\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, in many ways the most optimistic and appealing of Pasolini's late films, not only in the final explosive phase of Pasolini's career but also more broadly in the global history of film spectacle from Douglas Fairbanks to Maria Montez.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Moon \u003c\/b\u003eteaches at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Moon: Michael Moon is the author of books on the body in Walt Whitman's poetry, imitation and initiation in American art and writing from Henry James to Andy Warhol, and the sources of the work of outsider artist Henry Darger. He has taught at Duke and Johns Hopkins University, and now teaches at Emory University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771627012384,"sku":"9781551526669","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5521b4a80eca34dc5b60d9827afa2375.webp?v=1780389880","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/arabian-nights-a-queer-film-classic-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}