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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Frank, editor.

Waller, Marguerite R., 1948- editor.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies.

Toronto Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fellini, Federico--Criticism and interpretation.

Fellini, Federico.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

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

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 / Dorothee 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-00317-8

9786612003172

1-4426-7483-0

OCLC:

923069652