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Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy

By Andrea Minuz

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9781782388203
DOI
10.1515/9781782388203
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1446447 bytes)
Pages
228\214
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:02:43

Description

Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker’s reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini’s cinema as an individual expression of the nation’s “mythical biography,” the director’s most celebrated themes and images — a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival — become symbols of Italy’s traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.

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