(Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors) 1st Edition by Frank Burke (Editor), Marguerite Waller (Editor), Marita Gubareva (Editor)
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.
