Companion to Federico Fellini

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.

List of 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 Wertmüller
 
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 Aprà
 
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 Gündodu
 
38 Fellini in Japan 439
Earl Jackson
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About the author

Frank Burke is Professor Emeritus at Queen's University, Canada. He is editor of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Italian Cinema and author of several books on Federico Fellini.

Marguerite Waller is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She has co-edited volumes in both feminist studies and cinema studies, including Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives and Postcolonial Cinema Studies.

Marita Gubareva is a freelance researcher and journalist based in Rome. Her research interests include seventeenth-century and late nineteenth-century aesthetics and Italian cinema.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Burke, Frank (Queens University) Waller Burke, Frank Waller Burke, Marita Gubareva, Marguerite Waller, Marguerite Gubareva Waller
• Assisted by: Frank Burke (Editor), Burke Frank (Editor), Marita Gubareva (Editor), Marguerit Waller (Editor), Marguerite Waller (Editor), Waller Marguerite (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781119431565
• ISBN: 978-1-119-43156-5
• No. of pages: 575
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors; WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Kino, Fellini, Federico, Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Filmforschung