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.…mehr
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.
Andrea Minuz is Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Art History and Perfor;ming Arts, University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is the author of La Shoah e la cultura visuale. Cinema, memoria, spazio pubblico (Bulzoni Editore, 2010) [The Holocaust and Visual Culture: Film, Memory, the Public Sphere].
Inhaltsangabe
Preface to the English edition Acknowledgments Essential Chronology by Fabio Benincasa Introduction: Political Fellini? Chapter 1. Fellini and "Italian Ideology" Chapter 2. Mythical biography of a Nation Chapter 3. La dolce vita, our contemporary Chapter 4. Fellini, Mussolini and the complex of Rome Chapter 5. Fellini and feminism Chapter 6. A public dream. The Italy of Prova d'orchestra Chapter 7. You don't interrupt an emotion Appendix: the Maestro and the Divo, Fellini in the Andreotti archives Selected Bibliography Index
Preface to the English edition Acknowledgments Essential Chronology by Fabio Benincasa Introduction: Political Fellini? Chapter 1. Fellini and "Italian Ideology" Chapter 2. Mythical biography of a Nation Chapter 3. La dolce vita, our contemporary Chapter 4. Fellini, Mussolini and the complex of Rome Chapter 5. Fellini and feminism Chapter 6. A public dream. The Italy of Prova d'orchestra Chapter 7. You don't interrupt an emotion Appendix: the Maestro and the Divo, Fellini in the Andreotti archives Selected Bibliography Index
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