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Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Cinematographic Aesthetics as Subversion of Moral Reason in Pasolini’s Medea
As the film theorist Janet L. Borgerson claims, there is something awry in our historical memory of Medea. This is precisely the point of departure for Pasolini’s film: he does not create an opposition between the world of patriarchal reason, embodied by Jason, and the matriarchal, irrational, archaic, and magical world personified by Medea. On the contrary, he shows that this opposition is itself the product of a historical conception.
Keywords: Pasolini, Pier Paolo – Medea; motion pictures; Callas, Maria; Greek myths; Kant, Immanuel – The Critique of Practical Reason; Dionysus; The Dionysian; Nietzsche, Friedrich; cinematography
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Cinematographic Aesthetics as Subversion of Moral Reason in Pasolini’s Medea
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Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
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As the film theorist Janet L. Borgerson claims, there is something awry in our historical memory of Medea. This is precisely the point of departure for Pasolini’s film: he does not create an opposition between the world of patriarchal reason, embodied by Jason, and the matriarchal, irrational, archaic, and magical world personified by Medea. On the contrary, he shows that this opposition is itself the product of a historical conception.
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Vienna
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Turia + Kant
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2012
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo – Medea
motion pictures
Callas, Maria
Greek myths
Kant, Immanuel – The Critique of Practical Reason
Dionysus
The Dionysian
Nietzsche, Friedrich
cinematography
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© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, ‘Cinematographic Aesthetics as Subversion of Moral Reason in Pasolini’s Medea’, in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 255–66 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_14>
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255
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266
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The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 255–66
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Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, ‘Cinematographic Aesthetics as Subversion of Moral Reason in Pasolini’s Medea’, in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 255–66 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_14>