{"product_id":"archaic-modernism","title":"Archaic Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eArchaic Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini: \u003cem\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/em\u003e (1967), \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e (1969), and \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards an African Orestes\u003c\/em\u003e (1970\/1973). Considering Pasolini's own theories of a \"Cinema of Poetry\" alongside Jacques Derrida's concept of \u003cem\u003e?criture\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as more recent scholarship by queer theory scholars advocating for an antirelational and antisocial subjectivity, Humphrey maintains that Pasolini's Greek tragedy films exemplify a paradoxical sense of \"archaic modernism\" that is at the very heart of the filmmaker's project. More daringly, he contends that they ultimately reveal the queer roots of Western civilization's formative texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchaic Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e is comprised of three chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on \u003cem\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/em\u003e, assessing both the filmic language employed and the deeply queer mythological source material that haunts the tragedy even as it remains largely at a subtextual yet palpable level. Chapter 2 extends and deepens the concept of queer fate and queer negativity in a scene-by-scene analysis of \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e. Chapter 3 looks at the most obscure of Pasolini's feature length films, \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards an African Orestes\u003c\/em\u003e, a film long misunderstood as an unwitting failure, but which could perhaps best be understood as a deliberate, sacrificial act on the filmmaker's part. Considering the film as the third in an informal, maybe unconscious, trilogy, Humphrey concludes his monograph by arguing that this \"trilogy of myth\" can best be understood as a deconstruction, gradually more and more severe, of three of the most important origin tales of Western civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchaic Modernism \u003c\/em\u003emakes the case that these three films are as essential as those Pasolini films more ofte\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67579583299951,"sku":"9780814343104","price":319.18,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0814343104.jpg?v=1790395396","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/archaic-modernism","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}