Federico Fellini: contemporary perspectives
by Burke, Frank Waller, Marguerite R.
Federico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing a range of recent critical filters, including semiotic, psychoanalytical, feminist and deconstructionist. Accordingly, a number of important themes arise - the reception of fascism, the crisis of the subject, the question of agency, homo-eroticism, feminism, and constructions of gender. Since the early 1970s, a slide in critical and theoretical atten…
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Federico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing a range of recent critical filters, including semiotic, psychoanalytical, feminist and deconstructionist. Accordingly, a number of important themes arise - the reception of fascism, the crisis of the subject, the question of agency, homo-eroticism, feminism, and constructions of gender. Since the early 1970s, a slide in critical and theoretical attention to Fellini's work has corresponded with an assumption that his films are self-indulgent and lacking in political value. This volume moves the discussion towards a politics of signification, contending that Fellini's evolving self-reflexivity is not mere solipsism but rather a critique of both aesthetics and signification. The essays presented here are almost all new - the two exceptions being important signifiers in Fellini studies. The first, Frank Burke's "Federico Fellini: Reality/Representation/Signification" laid the foundation in the late 1980s for considering Fellini's work in the light of postmodernism. The second, Marguerite Waller's "Whose Dolce Vita is this Anyway?: The Language of Fellini's Cinema" (1990), provides a contemporary re-reading of Fellini's most successful film. This lively and ambitious collection brings a new critical language to bear on Fellini's films, offering fresh insights into their underlying issues and meaning. In bringing Fellini criticism up to date, it will have a significant impact on film studies, reclaiming this important director for a contemporary audience
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- Publication Date:2002
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- Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781442674837, 1442674830, 9781282003170, 1282003178
- oclc:ocn244768219
- LC Classification:PN1998.3.F45
- Dewey Decimal:791.4302/33092
Table of Contents
Federico Fellini: realism/representation/signification / Frank Burke -- Subtle wasted traces: Fellini and the circus / Helen Stoddart -- Fellini and Lacan: the hollow phallus, the male womb, and the retying of the umbilical / William van Watson -- When in Rome do as the Romans do? Federico Fellini's problematization of femininity (The white sheik) / Virginia Picchietti -- Whose Dolce vita is this, anyway? The language of Fellini's cinema / Marguerite R. Waller -- 'Toby dammit, ' intertext, and the end of humanism / Christopher Sharrett -- Fellini's Amarcord: variations on the libidinal limbo of adolescence / Dorothée Bonnigal -- Memory, dialect, politics: linguistic strategies in Fellini's Amarcord / Cosetta Gaudenzi -- Fellini's Ginger and Fred: postmodern simulation meets Hollywood romance / Millicent Marcus -- Cinecittà and America: Fellini interviews Kafka (Intervista) / Carlo Testa -- Interview with the vamp: deconstructing femininity in Fellini's final films (Intervista, La voce della luna) / Áine O'Healy.
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