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A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director's films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini's works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation. As the centennial of Federico Fellini's birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini's films and illustrates Fellini's importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini's early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of "Short Takes" sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume: • Offers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini's work • Discusses Fellini's creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his Book of Dreams published after his death. • Examines Fellini's influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa. • Demonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini's work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture. • Features personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertmüller • Includes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini's work The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies.
Contents
Notes on Contributors xi Editors' Notes xxi Foreword xxiii Preface xxix Acknowledgments xxxv Glossary xxxvii Part I Fellini and Friends 1 1 Introduction 3 Marguerite Waller and Frank Burke 2 Fellini, the Artist and the Man: An Interview with Vincenzo Mollica 13 Frank Burke (with Marita Gubareva) 3 Fellini: Backstory and a Dream 27 Goffredo Fofi 4 A Certain Freedom in Filmmaking 31 Lina Wertmuller 5 A Bit of Everything Happened: My Experience of La dolce vita 35 Valeria Ciangottini 6 Fellini a Casa Nostra 37 Carlo and Luca Verdone Part II Beginnings, Inspirations, Intertexts 41 7 Neorealism Masked: Fellini's Films of the 1950s 43 Stefania Parigi 8 Fellini's Graphic Heritage: Drawings, Comics, Animation, and Beyond 59 Marco Bellano 9 In Bed with Fellini: Jung, Ernst Bernhard, Night Work, and Il libro dei sogni 79 Erika Suderburg 10 Fellini and Esotericism: An Ambiguous Adherence 95 Federico Pacchioni 11 Circo Fellini 109 Adriano Apra 12 Fellini's Sense of Place 117 John Agnew 13 Il viaggio di G. Mastorna : Fellini Entre Deux Morts 129 Alessandro Carrera 14 An Incapacity to Affirm : Fellini's Aesthetics and the Decadent Movement 141 Marita Gubareva 15 Fellini and Fashion, a Two-way Street: An Interview with Gianluca Lo Vetro 153 The Editors Part III Collaborations 163 16 Ennio, Tullio, and the Others: Fellini and His Screenwriters 165 Giaime Alonge 17 Fellini and His Producers: Strange Bedfellows 177 Barbara Corsi and Marina Nicoli 18 Masina and Mastroianni: Reconfiguring C. G. Jung's Animus and Anima 191 Victoria Surliuga Part IV Aesthetics and Film Language 205 19 Io non me ne intendo : Fellini's Relationship to Film Language 207 Marco Vanelli 20 Fellini's Visual Style(s): A Phenomenological Account 223 Hava Aldouby 21 The Liquid Hyperfilm: Fellini, Deleuze, and the Sea as Forza Generatrice 237 Amy Hough-Dugdale 22 Sounding Out Fellini: An Aural Continuum of Voices, Musics, Noises 251 Antonella Sisto 23 Fellini and the Aesthetics of Intensity 267 Paolo Bertetto 24 Egli Danza: Fellini's Contexts and Influence from Before Rossellini to Sorrentino and Beyond 279 Vito Zagarrio Part V Contemporary Dialogues 293 25 Remote Control Politics: Federico Fellini and the Politics of Parody 295 Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli 26 Il Maestro Dismantles the Master's House: Fellini's Undoing of Gender and Sexuality 311 Marguerite Waller 27 Racial Difference and the Postcolonial Imaginary in the Films of Federico Fellini 331 Shelleen Greene 28 Environmental Fellini: Petroculture, the Anthropocene, and the Cinematic Road 347 Elena M. Past Part VI Receptions, Appropriations, Dispersions 361 29 Fellini's Critical Reception in Italy 363 Nicola Bassano 30 Fellini's Reception in France 377 Albert Sbragia 31 The Fellini Brand: Marketing Appropriations of the Fellini Name 391 Rebecca Bauman 32 Fellini Remixed: Anglo-American Film and Television Appropriations 403 Frank Burke 33 Il ritorno in patria: From Rimini to Winnipeg by Way of the Alps 419 Russell J. A. Kilbourn 34 Fellini and South Asian Cinemas 425 Esha Niyogi De 35 Interview with Tanvir Mokammel 429 Esha Niyogi De 36 Roma, Fellini, and Me 433 Amara Lakhous 37 Fellini and Turkey: Influence and Image 435 Cihan Gundogdu 38 Fellini in Japan 439 Earl Jackson 39 Fellini in Russia 445 Naum Kleiman 40 Fellini in the Cuban Context 451 Luciano Castillo, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Mario Naito Lopez, Mario Masvidal, and Rebeca Chavez Part VII Short Takes on Individual Films 455 41 Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik 1952) 457 Dom Holdaway 42 La strada (1954) 461 Giuseppe Natale 43 Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)-Cabiria in the Classroom: Teaching Fellini in the Twenty-first Century 465 Aine O'Healy 44 La dolce vita (1960) 471 Mark Nicholls 45 Oh, My 81/2 475 Caroline Thompson 46 Giulietta degli spiriti ( Juliet of the Spirits): A Twenty-First Century Users' Guide 479 Erika Suderburg 47 Fellini - Satyricon 483 Cristina Villa 48 Roma: Amor Through the Looking-Glass 487 Rebecca West 49 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellini's Casanova) in the Age of #MeToo 491 Alberto Zambenedetti 50 Prova d'orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal) and E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) 495 John Paul Russo 51 Intervista: There are No Rules 499 Elan Mastai Appendices Foundations and Archives for Fellini Research 503 Appendix A Rimini and Fellini: The Fondazione Fellini, the Cineteca di Rimini, the Museo Fellini, and CircAmarcord 505 Marco Andreucci Appendix B Additional Archival Sources 507 The Editors Index, Terms and Issues 511 Index, Names and Titles 521
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