Federico Fellini : contemporary perspectives / / edited by Frank Burke and Marguerite R. Waller

• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/0233/092
• Soggetto topico: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BurkeFrank; WallerMarguerite R. <1948->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 audience
• Titolo autorizzato: Federico Fellini
• ISBN: 1-282-00317-8; 9786612003172; 1-4426-7483-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806861403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Toronto Italian studies.