Partidario de la barbarie. Pasolini, Medea, 1969
ISSN: 1886-4902
Year of publication: 2014
Issue Title: Literatura europea, literaturas europeas
Issue: 7
Pages: 42-57
Type: Article
More publications in: Extravío: revista electrónica de literatura comparada
Abstract
The article shows how Pasolini uses myth in his film Medea (1969). He opposes Medea�s word (archaic, barbarian, magical) to Jason�s (modern, civilized and rational). This opposition does not just work in a temporal axe (past / present), but also in a spatial one (Europe / Orient), and expresses Pasolini�s criticism to the alienation of European Culture �tangible in human relationships, justice, religion, etc. All these aspects are articulated in the film with extraordinary density whose meaning richness will not be extinguished in this analysis proposal.