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Title Federico Fellini : contemporary perspectives / edited by Frank Burke and Marguerite R. Waller.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Fellini, Federico -- Criticism and interpretation.
Fellini, Federico.
Criticism and interpretation.
Fellini, Federico -- Critique et interprétation.
Fellini, Federico.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Subject Filmkunst.
Films.
Added Author Burke, Frank.
Waller, Marguerite R., 1948-
Other Form: Print version: Federico Fellini. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002 9780802006967 (DLC) 2002728423 (OCoLC)48416474
ISBN 9781442674837 (electronic book)
1442674830 (electronic book)
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9781282003170
0802006965 (bound)
0802076475 (paperback)
9780802006967
9780802076472