Federico Fellini : contemporary perspectives

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

"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...

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Other Authors: Burke, Frank, Waller, Marguerite R., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002.
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
Fellini, Federico > Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:c2002.
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=606853&T=F
Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Dorothée 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.

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