To An Unknown Apostle: Moments of Pauline Undoing in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Saint Paul
After situating Pasolini's sketch for a screenplay about the apostle within a broad context of Pauline retellings, this essay goes on to explore the uneasy tension Pasolini develops between Paul as representative of an oppressive religious authority, and Paul as frail, entrancing, humbled mysti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2019, Volume: 27, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 518-532 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922-1975
/ Film
/ Reception
/ Paul Apostle
/ King, Martin Luther 1929-1968
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Martin Luther King, Jr
B Translation B quotidian B undoing |
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| Summary: | After situating Pasolini's sketch for a screenplay about the apostle within a broad context of Pauline retellings, this essay goes on to explore the uneasy tension Pasolini develops between Paul as representative of an oppressive religious authority, and Paul as frail, entrancing, humbled mystic. The tension is uneasy because it represents something of a false dichotomy. The real choice offered in the screenplay, the paper argues, is between Paul the New Testament personality, and Paul the ordinary, and mostly unknown, individual. While Pasolini may barely hint at the possibilities of so understated a treatment, his example sets the stage (so to speak) for an intriguingly contemporary response to more typical examples of Pauline reception (especially among critics inspired by the Paul of Badiou, Agamben, et al.). |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-02745P04 |