
The Death of a Class
Italy's illustrious Marxist filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci died last week. His films explored the death of the bourgeoisie; his legacy points us to the death of the chauvinist male auteur.
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Luca Peretti is a visiting assistant professor at Ohio State University. He works on Italian media, film history, and Italian cultural history. He is co-editor of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed: A Thinker for the Twenty-First Century.
Italy's illustrious Marxist filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci died last week. His films explored the death of the bourgeoisie; his legacy points us to the death of the chauvinist male auteur.
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