Federico Fellini

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Sous la direction de Francis Burke et Marguerite R. Waller

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > Federico Fellini

Mots Clés

Federico Fellini

Année d'édition

2002

Editeur

University of Toronto Press

Collection

Toronto Italian Studies

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 288 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

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ISBN-13

0-8020-7647-5
978-0-8020-7647-2

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos des auteurs :
Frank Burke is Professor of Film Studies at Queen's University.
Marguerite R. Waller is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside.

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