Political Fellini : : Journey to the End of Italy / / Andrea Minuz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Minuz, Andrea,
• MitwirkendeR: Benincasa, Fabio,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the English Edition: After The Great Beauty --; Acknowledgments --; Essential Chronology --; Introduction: Political Fellini? --; Chapter 1 Fellini and “Italian Ideology” --; Chapter 2 Mythical Biography of a Nation --; Chapter 3 La Dolce Vita and Its Relevance Today --; Chapter 4 Fellini, Mussolini, and the Complex of Rome --; Chapter 5 Fellini and Feminism --; Chapter 6 A Public Dream: Italy and Prova d’orchestra --; Chapter 7 You Don’t Interrupt an Emotion --; Appendix: The Divo and the Maestro Fellini in the Andreotti Archives --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782388203; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782388203
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrea Minuz.

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.