| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction. Political Fellini? -- Fellini and "Italian ideology" -- Mythical biography of a nation -- La Dolce Vita and its relevance today -- Fellini, Mussolini, and the complex of Rome -- Fellini and Feminism -- A public dream: Italy and Prova d'orchestra -- You don't interupt and emotion -- Appendix. The divo and the maestro: Fellini in the Andreotti Archives |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-193) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fellini, Federico -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Fellini, Federico fast |
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Fellini, Federico 1920-1993 gnd |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Political and social views
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Film
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Politik
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Filmregissörer -- politiska aspekter.
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Regissörer -- politiska aspekter.
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Politik i filmen.
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Regissörer.
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Politik och film.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87005427
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Italy
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Italien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782388203 |
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1782388206 |
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