Pier Paolo Pasolini Cinema As Heresy Author:Naomi Greene The major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet, novelist, essayist and political commentator. Naomi Greene reveals the diverse talents that made him one of the most controversial European intellectuals of the postwar era, at the center of political and cultural debates. She presents Pasolini's films in a critical context, using ... more »them to trace the evolution of his ideas and the details of his troubled personal life from 1950, when he settled in Rome, to 1975, the year of his brutal murder.« less