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1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Toronto Italian studies
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Toronto Italian studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and filmography (pages 235-236). |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Fellini, Federico -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fellini, Federico. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Fellini, Federico -- Critique et interprétation. |
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Fellini, Federico. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Filmkunst.
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Films.
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Added Author |
Burke, Frank.
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Waller, Marguerite R., 1948-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Federico Fellini. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002 9780802006967 (DLC) 2002728423 (OCoLC)48416474 |
ISBN |
9781442674837 (electronic book) |
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1442674830 (electronic book) |
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1282003178 |
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9781282003170 |
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0802006965 (bound) |
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0802076475 (paperback) |
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9780802006967 |
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9780802076472 |
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