Abstract Critics and film theorists have frequently drawn attention to the use of J. S. Bach’s music in Accattone (1961), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first film. Many noted strangeness musical choice particular its sociocultural disconnection from film’s setting borgate, deprived areas on outskirts Rome. second film, Mamma Roma (1962), similarly focuses lives an underclass pimps, prostitutes, scroung...