Fragments of Reality: Landscape and Sexuality in Arabian Nights (1974)

Abstract

This article explores themes of sexuality and landscape in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film . Utilizing an auteurist perspective and incorporating scholarly sources, archival images, critical reception, and the filmmaker’s writings, this article also examines the linkages between Pasolini’s biography and his formally challenging, politically conscious cinematic adaptation of the ancient Arabic anthology, One Thousand and One Nights.