The relationship between Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roland Barthes has been characterized by encounters and reciprocal readings – in the literary, cinematographic and theatrical fields – documented also by some critical studies. Tracing the contacts between the two authors or the possible influences of the French semiologist’s theses on the poet-director’s production, however, finds no dialectical comparisons about photography. Yet, Barthes’s considerations on the photographic image can offer valid interpretations of some of Pasolini’s works that are open to interference with photographic language. Based not so much on biographical information or evident intertextual references, but on the adoption of a critical perspective, the article therefore proposes a possible application of Barthes’s theoretical thesis on photography to Pasolini’s works whose thematic and formal choices are related to the photographic code, in particular the short story Un mio sogno (1946), the movie La rabbia (1963) and the essay La luce di Caravaggio (1974).
Pier Paolo Pasolini e Roland Barthes. Tracce fotografiche di un dialogo mancato
Corinne Pontillo
2021-01-01
Abstract
The relationship between Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roland Barthes has been characterized by encounters and reciprocal readings – in the literary, cinematographic and theatrical fields – documented also by some critical studies. Tracing the contacts between the two authors or the possible influences of the French semiologist’s theses on the poet-director’s production, however, finds no dialectical comparisons about photography. Yet, Barthes’s considerations on the photographic image can offer valid interpretations of some of Pasolini’s works that are open to interference with photographic language. Based not so much on biographical information or evident intertextual references, but on the adoption of a critical perspective, the article therefore proposes a possible application of Barthes’s theoretical thesis on photography to Pasolini’s works whose thematic and formal choices are related to the photographic code, in particular the short story Un mio sogno (1946), the movie La rabbia (1963) and the essay La luce di Caravaggio (1974).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
