Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini »

Colleen Ryan-Scheutz is the director of the Italian Language Program and an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame.

'Sex, the Self, and the Sacred amounts to nothing less than a rethinking of Pier Paolo Pasolini's entire corpus from a psychoanalytically informed feminist perspective. By focusing on female characters as embodiments of primal origins, authenticity, and an epic-religious approach to representation, Colleen Ryan-Scheutz gives a gendered slant to Pasolini's critique of today's desecrated cultural landscape. This is an exhaustively researched, generously annotated, clearly written, and compelling book.'

-Millicent Marcus, Department of Italian, Yale University

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Susanna Pasolini and the Female Universe
2. Mothers
3. Prostitutes
4. Daughters
5. Saints
6. Sinners
7. Salò and Petrolio

Appendix: Filmography of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Notes

Bibliography

Index