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

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