Listening to Fellini : music and meaning in black and white / M. Thomas Van Order.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Order, M. Thomas, 1961-

Series:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fellini, Federico--Criticism and interpretation.

Fellini, Federico.

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For decades scholarship on Federico Fellini has focused on the figure of the director himself, while formal analysis of the craft of filmmaking has been largely overlooked. Fellini spent countless hours in the studios of Cinecitta recording, mixing, and editing voices, sound effects, and music for his films, but his unique and often revolutionary uses of cinematic sound have never before been systematically studied. Listening to Fellini reveals the singularly important role played by music in the construction of meaning in Fellini's black-and-white feature-length films, and presents a substantial re-reading of the films made during the most creative period of Fellini's artistic development. Thomas Van Order is an Assistant Professor in Italian at Middlebury College.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Lo sceicco bianco: An Early Break with Neorealism

I vitelloni: Music and Social Ritual

La strada: Music and Redemption

Fellini Betrayed: The English-Language Sound Track of La strada

Il bidone: Metacinema and the Sound Track

Le notti di Cabiria: Music and Transcendence

Brecht/Weill, Respighi, and the Equivocal Tone of La dolce vita

Music, Self, and Other

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Lo sceicco bianco

Appendix 2 I vitelloni

Appendix 3 La strada

Appendix 4 Il bidone

Appendix 5 Le notti di Cabiria

Appendix 6 La dolce vita

Appendix 7 8 1/2

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-271) and index.

ISBN:

0-8386-4335-3

OCLC:

694147614