Ennio Flaiano and His Italy - Postcards from a Changing World

While film scholars and enthusiasts all over the world are familiar with Federico Fellini's important contributions to postwar Italian and European cinema, it is much less known, especially outside of Italy, that such success has much to do with the writings of his fifteen-year collaborator and scriptwriter, Ennio Flaiano (1910-72), journalist, novelist, dramatist, and theater and film critic. This book identifies the ways in which Flaiano's distinctive travel diary 'satirically registering the transformative journey from provincial Italian to global citizen' captured and shaped the changing tastes of an entire generation of Italians on the film set, in the newspaper office and on the street. The book highlights Flaiano's uneven yet steadily developing anticolonialist stance, his emerging postmodern autobiography, and his interrogation of notions of regional, national and cultural superiority.

About the author

Marisa S. Trubiano is assistant professor of Italian at Montclair State University.

Product details

• Authors: Marisa Trubiano, Marisa S Trubiano, Marisa S. Trubiano
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611474183
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-418-3
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies; Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies; Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Fairleigh Dickinson Univer
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works