05135nam 2200805 450 991080686140332120230912172548.01-282-00317-897866120031721-4426-7483-010.3138/9781442674837(CKB)2420000000004052(EBL)3254956(OCoLC)923069652(SSID)ssj0000296214(PQKBManifestationID)11223310(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296214(PQKBWorkID)10320247(PQKB)11655186(CaBNvSL)thg00600111(DE-B1597)464473(OCoLC)1002253317(OCoLC)1004886086(OCoLC)1011463276(OCoLC)944178097(OCoLC)999382271(DE-B1597)9781442674837(Au-PeEL)EBL4671507(CaPaEBR)ebr11257215(CaONFJC)MIL200317(OCoLC)958565281(OCoLC)1148118291(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104754(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/srh5zc(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418246(MiAaPQ)EBC4671507(MiAaPQ)EBC3254956(EXLCZ)99242000000000405220160926h20022002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFederico Fellini contemporary perspectives /edited by Frank Burke and Marguerite R. WallerToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2002.©20021 online resource (272 p.)Toronto Italian StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-7647-5 0-8020-0696-5 Includes bibliographical references.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.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 audienceToronto Italian studies.PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & CriticismbisacshCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.791.43/0233/092Burke FrankWaller Marguerite R.1948-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806861403321Federico Fellini957371UNINA