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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813120603321

Autore

Minuz Andrea

Titolo

Political Fellini : journey to the end of Italy / / Andrea Minuz ; translated by Marcus Perryman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-820-6

Edizione

[English-language edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302/33092

Soggetti

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

Italy In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

English language edition.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Acknowledgments; Essential Chronology; Introduction: Political Fellini?; Chapter 1 - Fellini and ""Italian Ideology""; Chapter 2 - Mythical Biography of a Nation; Chapter 3 - La Dolce Vita and Its Relevance Today; Chapter 4 - Fellini, Mussolini, and the Complex of Rome; Photos; Chapter 5 - Fellini and Feminism; Chapter 6 - A Public Dream: Italy and Prova d'orchestra; Chapter 7 - You Don't Interrupt an Emotion; Appendix: The Divo and the Maestro Fellini in the Andreotti Archives; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker’s reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini’s cinema as an individual expression of the nation’s “mythical biography,” the director’s most celebrated themes and images — a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival — become symbols of Italy’s traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.