Fellini’s Films and Commercials
From Postwar to Postmodern
- 400 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Federico Fellini's distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned Fellini scholar Frank Burke presents a film-by-film analysis of the famed director's cinematic output from a theoretical perspective. The book explores Fellini's movement from relatively classic filmmaking to modernist reflexivity and then to 'postmodern reproduction'. Burke moves from analysis of stories told from a relatively 'objective' standpoint, to increased concentration on Fellini-as-author and on the cinematic apparatus, to Fellini's dismantling of authorship and cinematic apparatus, to his postmodern signifying strategies. Grounded in poststructuralist approaches to texts and signification, Burke shows that Fellini is profoundly readable, if extremely complex.
Revisiting Burke's 1996 Fellini's Films: From Postwar to Postmodern, this new edition includes revised material from the original, plus a new preface and new chapter on the filmmaker's work on commercials. Elegantly written and thoroughly researched, this book is essential reading for Fellini fans and scholars.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the 2020 Edition
- Acknowledgments for the 2020 Edition
- Preface to the 1996 Edition
- Acknowledgments for the 1996 Edition
- 1 Fellini in Context
- 2 Individuation Denied: Variety Lights to Il Bidone
- 3 Individuation and Creative Negation: Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce Vita
- 4 Film about Film and Modernist Self-Reflexivity: The Temptation of Dr. Antonio
- 5 Individuation and Enlightenment: 8½, Juliet of the Spirits, and Toby Dammit
- 6 The Individual in Crisis from8½ to Fellini-Satyricon
- 7 The Individuation of Art versus Character: Fellini-Satyricon and The Clowns
- 8 Art and Individuality Dissolved: Roma, Amarcord, and Orchestra Rehearsal
- 9 Postmodern Reproduction: Fellini’s Casanova to Intervista and La Dolce Vita Revisited
- 10 The Voice of the Moon
- 11 Fellini’s Commercials
- 12 Politics, Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
- Works Cited
- Index