Federico Fellini :: contemporary perspectives /

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Burke, Frank (HerausgeberIn), Waller, Marguerite R., 1948- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2002]
Schriftenreihe:Toronto Italian studies.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and filmography (p. 235-236).
ISBN:9781442674837
1442674830
9781282003170
1282003178

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