Political Fellini Journey to the End of Italy [Hardcover]

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 filmmakers reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellinis cinema as an individual expression of the nations mythical biography, the directors most celebrated themes and images  a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival  become symbols of Italys traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.

Andrea Minuzis Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Art History and Perfor;ming Arts, University of Rome La Sapienza. He is the author ofLa Shoah e la cultura visuale. Cinema, memoria, spazio pubblico(Bulzoni Editore, 2010) [The Holocaust and Visual Culture: Film, Memory, the Public Sphere].

As a scholar deeply immersed in Italian culture, Minuz knows the material inside and out, and his fresh interpretations of Fellinis films reference both the political and artistic climate in which they were created. Smoothly translated by Perryman,Political Felliniis a truly valuable book, one that delves deep into Fellini as a critic of politics on a larger scale and society as a whole& Highly recommended.? Choice

Political Fellini?is a well-researched and -referenced study of Fedrerico Fellini, Italian cinema, and culture. He gives deep insight into Italian cinema and political culture. Both students and experts of cinema will hugely benefit fromPolitical Fellini. It is the first full-length biography and study of Fedrerico Fellini as a great Italian filmmaker. It is a must read for everyone who is interested in cinema.? The Washington Book Review

Preface to the English edition
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