Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film

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Acknowledgemens Preface Chapter 1 - Fellini, Painting On Film Chapter 2 - Giulietta degli spiriti: Symbolist virgins meet Decadent femmes-fatales in Art Nouveau interiors * Symbolist strands embedded in Giulietta's childhood scenes * Suzy's domain: Symbolist femmes fatales roaming art nouveau interiors * The Master's Bedroom and the Jungian Shadow Chapter 3 - Toby Dammit: Rembrandt meets Velazquez on Screen * The hanging carcass - Rembrandt to Fellini via Soutine and Bacon * The bambina diavolo, or "Velazquez on film" * Fellini, Picasso, and Las Meninas after Velazquez * Severed head and white ball: Fellini's Jungian universe The severed head: Symbolist intertexts * Toby Dammit: the creative artist as mystical initiate Chapter 4 - Fellini-Satyricon: Bruegel meets Klimt in the sewers of imperial Rome * Fellini's (re)presentation of Romanita * Fellini's "Byzantium" Picasso's Minotaur meets Encolpio in Fabrizio Clerici's labyrinths Chapter 5 - Fellini's Casanova: Casanova meets De Chirico on Bocklin's Isle of the Dead * Casanova, Fellini's version of the Golem * Through the half-drawn curtain: Casanova, De Chirico and The Enigma of the Oracle * The Isoletta di San Bartolo, or Isle of the Dead * A bridge over the Thames: Fellini's Casanova meets Whistler's Nocturnes Conclusion - "A new hypothesis of the truth": Painting as vehicle of the Real in Fellini's films, 1960s-70s List of Illustrations Bibliography