Federico Fellini Centenary Essays
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Biographical note
Marco Malvestio is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padova. Jessica Whitehead is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Languages at Cape Breton University. Alberto Zambenedetti is an associate professor in the Department of Italian Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.A complex and at times controversial film-maker whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century, Federico Fellini (1920–1993) remains central to the Italian cultural imagery and the object of ongoing debates and critical scrutiny at home and abroad. Images from his films – Gelsomina’s tears, Marcello’s sunglasses – have become global signifiers not only for Fellini and Italian cinema but for Italy itself, as steadily lodged in the world’s collective unconscious as the Colosseum’s arches and Venice’s gondolas.
Marking the centenary of Fellini’s birth, Federico Fellini: Centenary Essays reassesses the film-maker’s legacy with diverse contributions from established and emerging Fellini scholars as well as renowned Canadian film-makers. From literary influences to pictorial references, from artistic collaborations to politics, and from exhibition history to revivals, the collection covers the pivotal aspects of Fellini’s poetics through contemporary methodological tools and features a wide array of scholarly approaches. With complexity and nuance, the book takes stock of the enormous cultural legacy of one of the most celebrated directors in cinema history and is essential reading for scholars and cinephiles alike.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fellini at 100 – The Lingering Celebration
Marco Malvestio, Jessica Whitehead, and Alberto Zambenedetti
Film-Makers on Fellini
Reflections on 8 ? Screens
Atom Egoyan
Q&A on The Rabbit Hunters (2020)
Guy Maddin
The Unexpected Moment
Deepa Metha
In Memoriam
Introduction: Ottavio Cirio Zanetti – In Memoriam
Andrew A. Monti
Federico Fellini’s Urban Planning
Ottavio Cirio Zanetti
Fellini’s Graphic World
Ottavio Cirio Zanetti
Deleuzional Ponderings: The Fellinian Symbolic (in Memory of Marguerite Waller)
Frank Burke
Centenary Essays
What Is in the Modern Look? Federico Fellini and the Photography of William Klein
Giuliana Minghelli
Fellini, Theorist of Culture, 1950–1972
Veronica Pravadelli
Oenothea’s Gaze: Donyale Luna in Fellini Satyricon
Shelleen Greene
Consumer Capitalism, National Identity, and Heterotopia in Fellini’s Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio
Eleonora Sartoni
Fellini, Dante, Il viaggio di G. Mastorna, and Dreams
Mirko Tavoni
Il viaggio di G. Mastorna’s Constellation at the Crossroads of Arts and Media
Marina Vargau
The Genesis of Steiner: La dolce vita as Authorial Melting Pot
Federico Pacchioni
Amarcord: Fascism, Nightmares, and the Spectator’s Autobiography
Emanuele Morreale
Spectres of Venice: Il Casanova di Federico Fellini and the Gothic
Marco Malvestio and Alberto Zambenedetti
Sense of Place and “Placelessness”: Fellini’s Rome
Andrea Minuz
Framing Women in Fellini’s Films and Drawings
Dishani Samarasinghe
Originals in the Dark, Imitations in the Light: Federico Fellini’s Ginger e Fred
Giovanna Lisena
“The Tyrant Spectator”: Intermediality, Spectatorship, and Subjectivation in Federico Fellini
Giacomo Tagliani
Imaginary Worlds and Startling Creatures: Federico Fellini and Popular Culture
Manuela Gieri
The Megaphone Ran Out of Battery: The Invitation of Fellini’s Voices
Gaia Malnati
Watch Out! Flashback! Fellini’s Memory Films
Russell J.A. Kilbourn
Fellini’s Notes on Camp to John Waters
Eleonora Lima
The Mastrangelo Collection and Fellini’s Distribution in Canada
Jessica Whitehead and Christina Stewart
“Women with Big Breasts and Wide Hips”: Federico Fellini’s Cinema in Chinese Media Essays
Gaoheng Zhang
Contributors
Index