Wiley Blackwell Companion To Federico Fellini (wiley Blackwell Companions To Film Directors)

A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director's films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini's works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation. As the centennial of Federico Fellini's birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini's films and illustrates Fellini's importance as a filmmaker, artist, and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini's early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of "Short Takes" sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume: Offers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini's work Discusses Fellini's creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his Book of Dreams published after his death. Examines Fellini's influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa. Demonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini's work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture. Features personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertm�ller Includes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini's work The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 5 Copyright Page......Page 6 Contents......Page 9 Notes on Contributors......Page 13 Editors’ Notes......Page 23 Foreword......Page 25 Preface: Felliniesque. A Glimpse Behind the Curtain......Page 31 Acknowledgments......Page 37 Glossary......Page 39 Part I Fellini and Friends......Page 41 Chapter 1 Introduction......Page 43 Fellinian Wonder......Page 45 Reimagining the Political......Page 46 Caricature, Cartooning, and Queering......Page 47 Digital Fellini......Page 49 Notes......Page 50 References......Page 51 Chapter 2 Fellini, the Artist and the Man:An Interview with Vincenzo Mollica:......Page 53 References......Page 65 Backstory......Page 67 A Dream......Page 68 Notes......Page 69 Chapter 4 A Certain Freedom in Filmmaking......Page 71 Note......Page 73 Chapter 5 A Bit of Everything Happened: My Experience of La dolce vita......Page 75 Note......Page 76 Carlo Verdone......Page 77 Luca Verdone......Page 78 Note......Page 79 Part II Beginnings, Inspirations, Intertexts......Page 81 Fellini and Neorealism......Page 83 Caricatural Realism......Page 87 The World of the Spectacle and the “Spectacle of the World”......Page 90 Vagabondaggio and Itinerancy: A Path into the Heart and tothe Edges of Neorealism......Page 94 Notes......Page 97 References......Page 98 Chapter 8 Fellini’s Graphic Heritage: Drawings, Comics, Animation, and Beyond......Page 99 Fellini the Cartoonist, 1937–1947......Page 100 The Age of Dreams, 1948–1993......Page 104 Fellini During and After Fellini......Page 111 Conclusion: Never Ending Images......Page 114 Notes......Page 115 References......Page 116 Bed cinema......Page 119 Night Work......Page 123 The Book......Page 125 Drawing......Page 127 Spirits......Page 129 The Numinous......Page 130 Fine (Senza Fine)......Page 131 References......Page 132 Fellini and Esotericism......Page 135 A Transcendental Foundation: The Collaboration with Rota and Pinelli......Page 136 Bernhard and Rol as Guides to the Unknown......Page 138 Ambiguous Journeys: Mastorna and Tulum......Page 143 “Voluttuosamente Aperto a Tutto”......Page 145 References......Page 146 Chapter 11 Circo Fellini......Page 149 Notes......Page 155 References......Page 156 Introduction......Page 157 Fellini’s Sense of Place......Page 160 Fellini’s Sense of Place at Work......Page 162 References......Page 166 Ghosts of a Chance......Page 169 A Vibration of the Light......Page 173 Fellini between Two Deaths......Page 175 Notes......Page 177 References......Page 178 What is “Decadent Aesthetics”?......Page 181 The 1960s......Page 183 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini......Page 184 From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth Century......Page 189 Notes......Page 190 References......Page 191 Chapter 15 Fellini and Fashion, a Two‐way Street: An Interview with Gianluca Lo Vetro......Page 193 References......Page 200 Part III Collaborations......Page 203 Chapter 16 Ennio, Tullio, and the Others: Fellini and His Screenwriters......Page 205 Writing with Pinelli and Flaiano—and Why They Split......Page 207 Poetry, Improvisation, and Dubbing......Page 212 References......Page 215 Contentious Cohabitation......Page 217 Organization and Management of Human Capital in a Cinematographic Project......Page 218 Fellini’s Thoughts on Producers......Page 219 Producer or Patron?......Page 220 Case Study 1: La dolce vita. The Producer Exists (Actually, There Are Two of Them)......Page 222 Case Study 2: E la nave va. The Producer is Absent......Page 224 Conclusions......Page 226 References......Page 227 The Anima in Cinema......Page 231 Giulietta Masina, Fellini’s Animus......Page 235 Marcello Mastroianni, Fellini’s Anima......Page 238 References......Page 243 Part IV Aesthetics and Film Language......Page 245 Chapter 19 “Io non me ne intendo”: Fellini’s Relationship to Film Language......Page 247 References......Page 260 Chapter 20 Fellini’s Visual Style(s): A Phenomenological Account......Page 263 Crammed Foregrounds, Black-and-white Contrast, and Noir Aesthetics......Page 264 Introduction of Color, and Effetto Dipinto......Page 268 Plastic Seas and Other Material excesses......Page 272 Notes......Page 274 References......Page 275 Chapter 21 The Liquid Hyperfilm: Fellini, Deleuze, and the Sea as Forza Generatrice......Page 277 The Hyperfilm as Assemblage......Page 278 Rhizomatic Cinema......Page 279 The Forza Generatrice......Page 281 Fellini’s Creative Unconscious and the Sea as Screen......Page 282 The Plastic Sea and Cinema as Hypergenre......Page 285 References......Page 288 Introduction......Page 291 A Sonic Continuum......Page 292 Egli Danza ... Egli Danza......Page 293 Music and the Musician as Partners in Dance......Page 294 A Musical Baby Prodigy......Page 296 Camera-dance......Page 297 La dolce vita: Sounding the Depths, the Surfaces, and the Social......Page 299 Casanova’s Obsessions in Sound Takes......Page 302 References......Page 304 Intensity in Cinema......Page 307 La dolce vita......Page 308 Pathways of Intensity in La dolce vita......Page 310 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini......Page 313 The Staging of a Staging......Page 316 References......Page 318 Fellini at the Intersection(s)......Page 319 Artisanal Beginnings: Fellini and His Craft......Page 321 Neorealism and Its Authors......Page 322 Models and References......Page 325 Sorrentino and Recent Italian Cinema......Page 328 References......Page 332 Part V Contemporary Dialogues......Page 333 Chapter 25 Remote Control Politics: Federico Fellini and the Politics of Parody......Page 335 Un Animale Extraterrestre......Page 340 Notes......Page 346 References......Page 347 Introduction......Page 351 Of Men and Rodents......Page 353 Rosalba and Her Sisters......Page 357 From Anitona to Saraghina......Page 358 Feminist Imperialism and the Politics of Difference......Page 363 Notes......Page 366 References......Page 367 Chapter 27 Racial Difference and the Postcolonial Imaginary in the Films of Federico Fellini......Page 371 I......Page 373 II......Page 376 III......Page 380 Notes......Page 384 References......Page 385 Chapter 28 Environmental Fellini: Petroculture, the Anthropocene, and the Cinematic Road......Page 387 Fellini’s Roads: Le notti di Cabiria, Automobilization, Esso, and the “Boom”......Page 389 Fellini’s Hybrids: La dolce vita, Cinecittà, and Rebuilding the Eternal City in Plastic......Page 392 Fellini and a Geology of Media......Page 395 Petromelancholia: Fellini offroads, or plastics within......Page 397 References......Page 399 Part VI Receptions, Appropriations, Dispersions......Page 401 The Earliest Films: Critical Suspicion, Critical Promise......Page 403 The Trilogy of Grace: The Tragic Adventures of the Humble......Page 404 La dolce vita and 81⁄2: The Spiritual Void of a Nation, the Crisis of Modern Conscience......Page 405 Federico of the Spirits and the Magical Aspect of Life......Page 406 The Mysterious Eternity of Infancy: From I clowns (1970) to Prova d’orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal 1979)......Page 408 The 1980s: Ever Darkening Visions Amid an Industry in Decline......Page 411 “Has Speaking Poorly of Fellini Become Impossible?” The Final Films......Page 412 References......Page 414 Critics and Polemics......Page 417 Theory......Page 422 Eulogy......Page 426 Notes......Page 427 References......Page 428 Advertising, Marketing, and Fellini......Page 431 What’s in a (Brand) Name?......Page 432 The Man as Brand: The Fellini Mystique......Page 433 Case Studies: Global Applications of the Fellini Brand......Page 435 Fellini and Hedonism......Page 437 Dining da Federico......Page 438 Conclusion......Page 439 Notes......Page 441 References......Page 442 Chapter 32 Fellini Remixed: Anglo-American Film and Television Appropriations......Page 443 Fellini and Film Citation and Adaptation......Page 444 81⁄2 Become Public Service Announcement......Page 447 Affectionate Payback......Page 448 Northern Exposure: The Limits of Difference......Page 450 3rd Rock from the Sun’s De-alienation......Page 454 Notes......Page 456 References......Page 457 Chapter 33 Il ritorno in patria: From Rimini to Winnipeg by Way of the Alps......Page 459 References......Page 463 Chapter 34 Fellini and South Asian Cinemas......Page 465 References......Page 467 Andrei Tarkovsky......Page 468 Chapter 35 Interview with Tanvir Mokammel......Page 469 Chapter 36 Roma, Fellini, and Me......Page 473 Fellinian Influence......Page 475 Fellini and Turks......Page 476 References......Page 478 I. A Tale of Two Films......Page 479 II. Masumura and Fellini......Page 481 Notes......Page 483 References......Page 484 Chapter 39 Fellini in Russia......Page 485 Chapter 40 Fellini in the Cuban Context......Page 491 References......Page 494 Part VII Short Takes on Individual Films......Page 495 Chapter 41 Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik 1952)......Page 497 Note......Page 498 References......Page 499 Chapter 42 La strada (1954)......Page 501 References......Page 503 Chapter 43 Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)—Cabiria in the Classroom: Teaching Fellini in the Twenty-first Century......Page 505 References......Page 509 Chapter 44 La dolce vita (1960)......Page 511 References......Page 513 Chapter 45 Oh, My 81⁄2......Page 515 Chapter 46 Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits): A Twenty-First Century Users’ Guide......Page 519 Chapter 47 Fellini - Satyricon......Page 523 References......Page 525 Chapter 48 Roma: Amor Through the Looking-Glass......Page 527 Chapter 49 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellini’s Casanova) in the Age of #MeToo......Page 531 References......Page 533 Chapter 50 Prova d’orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal) and E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On)......Page 535 References......Page 538 Chapter 51 Intervista: There Are No Rules......Page 539 Appendices Foundations and Archives for Fellini Research......Page 543 Appendix A Rimini and Fellini: The Fondazione Fellini, the Cineteca di Rimini, the Museo Fellini, and CircAmarcord......Page 545 Reference......Page 546 Appendix B Additional Archival Sources......Page 547 Index, Terms and Issues......Page 551 Index, Names and Titles......Page 561 EULA......Page 578 Fellini and Friends. Introduction / Marguerite Waller, Frank Burke -- Fellini, the Artist and the Man / Frank Burke, Marita Gubareva -- Fellini / Goffredo Fofi -- A Certain Freedom in Filmmaking / Lina Wertmuller -- A Bit of Everything Happened / Valeria Ciangottini -- Fellini a Casa Nostra / Carlo, Luca Verdone -- Beginnings, Inspirations, Intertexts. Neorealism Masked / Stefania Parigi -- Fellini's Graphic Heritage / Marco Bellano -- In Bed with Fellini / Erika Suderburg -- Fellini and Esotericism / Federico Pacchioni -- Circo Fellini / Adriano Apra -- Fellini's Sense of Place / John Agnew -- "Il viaggio di G. Mastorna" / Alessandro Carrera -- An "Incapacity to Affirm" / Marita Gubareva -- Fellini and Fashion, a Two-way Street / The Editors -- Collaborations. Ennio, Tullio, and the Others / Giaime Alonge -- Fellini and His Producers / Barbara Corsi, Marina Nicoli -- Masina and Mastroianni / Victoria Surliuga -- Aesthetics and Film Language. "Io non me ne intendo" / Marco Vanelli -- Fellini's Visual Style(s) / Hava Aldouby -- The Liquid Hyperfilm / Amy Hough-Dugdale -- Sounding Out Fellini / Antonella Sisto -- Fellini and the Aesthetics of Intensity / Paolo Bertetto -- Egli Danza / Vito Zagarrio -- Contemporary Dialogues. Remote Control Politics / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli -- "Il Maestro" Dismantles the Master's House / Marguerite Waller -- Racial Difference and the Postcolonial Imaginary in the Films of Federico Fellini / Shelleen Greene -- Environmental Fellini / Elena M Past -- Receptions, Appropriations, Dispersions. Fellini's Critical Reception in Italy / Nicola Bassano -- Fellini's Reception in France / Albert Sbragia -- The Fellini Brand / Rebecca Bauman -- Fellini Remixed / Frank Burke -- Il ritorno in patria / Russell J A Kilbourn -- Fellini and South Asian Cinemas / Esha Niyogi De -- Interview with Tanvir Mokammel / Esha Niyogi De -- Roma, Fellini, and Me / Amara Lakhous -- Fellini and Turkey / Cihan Gundogdu -- Fellini in Japan / Earl Jackson -- Fellini in Russia / Naum Kleiman -- Fellini in the Cuban Context / Luciano Castillo, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Mario Naito Lopez, Mario Masvidal, Rebeca Chavez -- Short Takes on Individual Films. Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik 1952) / Dom Holdaway -- La strada (1954) / Giuseppe Natale -- Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)-Cabiria in the Classroom / Aine O'Healy -- La dolce vita (1960) / Mark Nicholls -- Oh, My 8ư / Caroline Thompson -- Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits) / Erika Suderburg -- Fellini -- Satyricon / Cristina Villa -- Roma / Rebecca West -- Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellini's Casanova) in the Age of #MeToo / Alberto Zambenedetti -- Prova d'orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal) and E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) / John Paul Russo -- Intervista / Elan Mastai -- Appendices: Foundations and Archives for Fellini Research. Appendix A: Rimini and Fellini -- Appendix B: Additional Archival Sources

A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director's films in the 21 st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini's works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation.

As the centennial of Federico Fellini's birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini's films and illustrates Fellini's importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini's early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of "Short Takes" sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume:

• Offers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini's work
• Discusses Fellini's creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his Book of Dreams published after his death.
• Examines Fellini's influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa.
• Demonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini's work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture.
• Features personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertmüller
• Includes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini's work

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies.

A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director's films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini's works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation. As the centennial of Federico Fellini's birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini's films and illustrates Fellini's importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini's early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of "Short Takes" sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume: Offers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini's work Discusses Fellini's creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his Book of Dreams published after his death. Examines Fellini's influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa. Demonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini's work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture. Features personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertmüller Includes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini's work The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies. A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the directors films in the 21 st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellinis works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation. As the centennial of Federico Fellinis birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellinis films and illustrates Fellinis importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellinis early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of Short Takes sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies. "I remember hearing, around the middle of December on the verge of the year 2000, that the BBC had compiled a list of a hundred names, chosen from among the most eminent figures of every nation of the world, to commit to the memory of the new millennium. From Italy, only Federico Fellini made the list. Not a scientist, Enrico Fermi or Guglielmo Marconi, for example, but an artist of the cinema who more than anyone else had left an impression on the imaginary of the century"--Publisher's description "I remember hearing, around the middle of December on the verge of the year 2000, that the BBC had compiled a list of a hundred names, chosen from among the most eminent figures of every nation of the world, to commit to the memory of the new millennium. From Italy, only Federico Fellini made the list. Not a scientist, Enrico Fermi or Guglielmo Marconi, for example, but an artist of the cinema who more than anyone else had left an impression on the imaginary of the century"-- Provided by publisher