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.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors xi
Editors’ Notes xxi
Foreword xxiii
Preface xxix
Acknowledgments xxxv
Glossary xxxvii
Part I Fellini and Friends 1
1 Introduction 3
Marguerite Waller and Frank Burke
2 Fellini, the Artist and the Man: An Interview with Vincenzo Mollica 13
Frank Burke (with Marita Gubareva)
3 Fellini: Backstory and a Dream 27
Goffredo Fofi
4 A Certain Freedom in Filmmaking 31
Lina Wertmüller
5 A Bit of Everything Happened: My Experience of La dolce vita 35
Valeria Ciangottini
6 Fellini a Casa Nostra 37
Carlo and Luca Verdone
Part II Beginnings, Inspirations, Intertexts 41
7 Neorealism Masked: Fellini’s Films of the 1950s 43
Stefania Parigi
8 Fellini’s Graphic Heritage: Drawings, Comics, Animation, and Beyond 59
Marco Bellano
9 In Bed with Fellini: Jung, Ernst Bernhard, Night Work, and Il libro dei sogni 79
Erika Suderburg
10 Fellini and Esotericism: An Ambiguous Adherence 95
Federico Pacchioni
11 Circo Fellini 109
Adriano Aprà
12 Fellini’s Sense of Place 117
John Agnew
13 “Il viaggio di G. Mastorna”: Fellini Entre Deux Morts 129
Alessandro Carrera
14 An “Incapacity to Affirm”: Fellini’s Aesthetics and the Decadent Movement 141
Marita Gubareva
15 Fellini and Fashion, a Two‐way Street: An Interview with Gianluca Lo Vetro 153
The Editors
Part III Collaborations 163
16 Ennio, Tullio, and the Others: Fellini and His Screenwriters 165
Giaime Alonge
17 Fellini and His Producers: Strange Bedfellows 177
Barbara Corsi and Marina Nicoli
18 Masina and Mastroianni: Reconfiguring C. G. Jung’s Animus and Anima 191
Victoria Surliuga
Part IV Aesthetics and Film Language 205
19 “Io non me ne intendo”: Fellini’s Relationship to Film Language 207
Marco Vanelli
20 Fellini’s Visual Style(s): A Phenomenological Account 223
Hava Aldouby
21 The Liquid Hyperfilm: Fellini, Deleuze, and the Sea as Forza Generatrice 237
Amy Hough‐Dugdale
22 Sounding Out Fellini: An Aural Continuum of Voices, Musics, Noises 251
Antonella Sisto
23 Fellini and the Aesthetics of Intensity 267
Paolo Bertetto
24 Egli Danza: Fellini’s Contexts and Influence from Before Rossellini to Sorrentino and Beyond 279
Vito Zagarrio
Part V Contemporary Dialogues 293
25 Remote Control Politics: Federico Fellini and the Politics of Parody 295
Kriss Ravetto‐Biagioli
26 “Il Maestro” Dismantles the Master’s House: Fellini’s Undoing of Gender and Sexuality 311
Marguerite Waller
27 Racial Difference and the Postcolonial Imaginary in the Films of Federico Fellini 331
Shelleen Greene
28 Environmental Fellini: Petroculture, the Anthropocene, and the Cinematic Road 347
Elena M. Past
Part VI Receptions, Appropriations, Dispersions 361
29 Fellini’s Critical Reception in Italy 363
Nicola Bassano
30 Fellini’s Reception in France 377
Albert Sbragia
31 The Fellini Brand: Marketing Appropriations of the Fellini Name 391
Rebecca Bauman
32 Fellini Remixed: Anglo‐American Film and Television Appropriations 403
Frank Burke
33 Il ritorno in patria: From Rimini to Winnipeg by Way of the Alps 419
Russell J. A. Kilbourn
34 Fellini and South Asian Cinemas 425
Esha Niyogi De
35 Interview with Tanvir Mokammel 429
Esha Niyogi De
36 Roma, Fellini, and Me 433
Amara Lakhous
37 Fellini and Turkey: Influence and Image 435
Cihan Gündoğdu
38 Fellini in Japan 439
Earl Jackson
39 Fellini in Russia 445
Naum Kleiman
40 Fellini in the Cuban Context 451
Luciano Castillo, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Mario Naito López, Mario Masvidal, and Rebeca Chávez
Part VII Short Takes on Individual Films 455
41 Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik 1952) 457
Dom Holdaway
42 La strada (1954) 461
Giuseppe Natale
43 Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) - Cabiria in the Classroom: Teaching Fellini in the Twenty‐first Century 465
Áine O’Healy
44 La dolce vita (1960) 471
Mark Nicholls
45 Oh, My 8½ 475
Caroline Thompson
46 Giulietta degli spiriti ( Juliet of the Spirits): A Twenty‐First Century Users’ Guide 479
Erika Suderburg
47 Fellini ‐ Satyricon 483
Cristina Villa
48 Roma: Amor Through the Looking‐Glass 487
Rebecca West
49 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellini’s Casanova) in the Age of #MeToo 491
Alberto Zambenedetti
50 Prova d’orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal) and E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) 495
John Paul Russo
51 Intervista: There are No Rules 499
Elan Mastai
Appendices Foundations and Archives for Fellini Research 503
Appendix A Rimini and Fellini: The Fondazione Fellini, the Cineteca di Rimini, the Museo Fellini, and CircAmarcord 505
Marco Andreucci
Appendix B Additional Archival Sources 507
The Editors
Index, Terms and Issues 511
Index, Names and Titles 521
