Federico Fellini
Subtitle: contemporary perspectives
By: edited by Frank Burke and Marguerite R. Waller.
Contributors: Burke, Frank.; Waller, Marguerite R., 1948-
Series: Toronto Italian studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Fellini, Federico -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: "Federico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini scholarship up to date, employing a range of recent critical approaches, 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, homoeroticism, feminism, and constructions of gender."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes filmography: p. [235]-236.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-234).
Table of contents: title: Federico Fellini: realism/representation/signification / Frank Burke; title: Subtle wasted traces: Fellini and the circus / Helen Stoddart; title: Fellini and Lacan: the hollow phallus, the male womb, and the retying of the umbilical / William van Watson; title: When in Rome do as the Romans do? Federico Fellini's problematization of femininity (The white sheik) / Virginia Picchietti; title: Whose Dolce vita is this, anyway? The language of Fellini's cinema / Marguerite R. Waller; title: 'Toby dammit,' intertext, and the end of humanism / Christopher Sharrett; title: Fellini's Amarcord: variations on the libidinal limbo of adolescence / Dorothée Bonnigal; title: Memory, dialect, politics: linguistic strategies in Fellini's Amarcord / Cosetta Gaudenzi; title: Fellini's Ginger and Fred: postmodern simulation meets Hollywood romance / Millicent Marcus; title: Cinecittà and America: Fellini interviews Kafka (Intervista) / Carlo Testa; title: Interview with the vamp: deconstructing femininity in Fellini's final films (Intervista, La voce della luna) / Áine O'Healy.