Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives (Toronto Italian Studies) by Francis Burke & Marguerite R. Waller
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Overview: Federico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing a range of recent critical filters, including semiotic, psychoanalytical, feminist and deconstructionist. Accordingly, a number of important themes arise – the reception of fascism, the crisis of the subject, the question of agency, homo-eroticism, feminism, and constructions of gender.
Since the early 1970s, a slide in critical and theoretical attention to Fellini’s work has corresponded with an assumption that his films are self-indulgent and lacking in political value. This volume moves the discussion towards a politics of signification, contending that Fellini’s evolving self-reflexivity is not mere solipsism but rather a critique of both aesthetics and signification. The essays presented here are almost all new – the two exceptions being important signifiers in Fellini studies. The first, Frank Burke’s .Federico Fellini: Reality/Representation/Signification. laid the foundation in the late 1980s for considering Fellini’s work in the light of postmodernism. The second, Marguerite Waller’s .Whose Dolce Vita is this Anyway?: The Language of Fellini’s Cinema. (1990), provides a contemporary re-reading of Fellini’s most successful film.
This lively and ambitious collection brings a new critical language to bear on Fellini’s films, offering fresh insights into their underlying issues and meaning. In bringing Fellini criticism up to date, it will have a significant impact on film studies, reclaiming this important director for a contemporary audience.
Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
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