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Making a Film

By: Federico Fellini

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Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) is one of the most renowned figures in world cinema. Director of a long list of critically acclaimed motion pictures, including La strada, La dolce vita, 81/2, and Amarcord, Fellini's success helped strengthen the international prestige of Italian cinema from the 1950s onward. Often remembered as an eccentric auteur with a vivid imagination and a penchant for quasi-autobiographical works, the carnivalesque, and Rubenesque women, Fellini's inimitable films celebrate the creative potential of cinema as a medium and also provide thought-provoking evocations of various periods in Italian history, from the years of fascism to the age of Silvio Berlusconi's media empire. In Making a Film Fellini discusses his childhood and adolescence in the coastal town of Rimini, the time he spent as a cartoonist, journalist, and screenwriter in Rome, his decisive encounter with Roberto Rossellini, and his own movies, from Variety Lights to Casanova. The director explains the importance of drawing to his creative process, the mysterious ways in which ideas for films arise, his collaborations with his wife, Giulietta Masina, his thoughts on fascism, Jung, and the relationship between cinema and television. Often comic, sometimes tragic, and rife with insightful comments on his craft, Making a Film sheds light on Fellini's life and reveals the motivations behind many of his most fascinating movies. Available for the first time in its entirety in English, this volume contains the complete translation of Fare un film, the authoritative collection of writings edited and reworked by Fellini and initially published by Giulio Einaudi in 1980. The text includes a new translation of the Italo Calvino essay "A Spectator's Autobiography," an introduction by Italian film scholar Christopher B. White, and an afterward by Fellini's longtime friend and collaborator Liliana Betti.

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1940625092

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9781940625096

The Journey of G. Mastorna

The Film Fellini Didn't Make

By: Federico Fellini

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The Journey of G. Mastorna

The Film Fellini Didn't Make

By: Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini’s script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G. Mastorna (1965/6), is published here for the first time in full English translation. It offers the reader a remarkable insight into Fellini’s creative process and his fascination with human mortality and the great mystery of death. Written in collaboration with Dino Buzzati, Brunello Rondi, and Bernardino Zapponi, the project was ultimately abandoned for a number of reasons, including Fellini’s near death, although it continued to inhabit his creative imagination and the landscape of his films for the rest of his career. Marcus Perryman has written two supporting essays which discuss the reasons why the film was never made, compare it to the two other films in the trilogy La Dolce Vita and 81⁄2, and analyze the script in the light of It’s a Wonderful Life and Fredric Brown’s sci-fi novel What Mad Universe. In doing so he opens up an entire world of connections to Fellini’s other films, writers and collaborators. It should be essential reading for students and academics studying Fellini’s work.

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226

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Berghahn Books

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0857459716

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9780857459718

Federico Fellini

Interviews

By: Federico Fellini

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Federico Fellini

Interviews

By: Federico Fellini

Career-spanning interviews with the director of La Strada, La Dolce Vita, The Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, and 81⁄2

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578068851

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9781578068852

Fellini On Fellini

By: Federico Fellini

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Fellini On Fellini

By: Federico Fellini

One of the greatest Italian filmmakers, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) created such masterpieces as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon, and Amarcord. His prodigious body of work evokes Pirandello, existentialism, "the silence of God," as well as show business. Critics have accused him of being a charlatan, hypocrite, clown, and demon, and have hailed him as a magician, poet, genius, and prophet. Fellini on Fellini is a fascinating collection of his articles, interviews, essays, reminiscences, and table talk, carefully arranged to chart the progress of his life and work. There are boyhood memories of his hometown, Remini, and his highly improbable beginnings as a scriptwriter for Rossellini; letters to Jesuit priests and Marxist critics defending his first international success, La Strada; anecdotes and revelations about the making of La Dolca Vita, 8 1/2, and The Clowns; and insights into all aspects of filmmaking. Here, Fellini reveals, as no one else can, a rich digest of his brilliant and controversial career.

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Da Capo Press

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0306806738

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9780306806735

Inspiring Fellini

Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes

By: Federico Pacchioni

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Inspiring Fellini

Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes

By: Federico Pacchioni

Introduction A Not So Solitary Genius: Traversing Authorial Politics and Methodological Anxieties An Ambiguous Adherence: Esotericism in Fellini?s Work and Collaborations 1 Tullio Pinelli Neutralizing Tragedy: A Pattern from La strada On A Metaphysical Fellowship: Transcending Christianity Nothing but Images: La voce della luna 2 Ennio Flaiano Frivolously Yours: The Public Dispute over Authorship The Self as Monster: Satire and Compassion in La dolce vita A Light in the Night: Negotiating Epiphany from I vitelloni to 8 1/2 3 Bernardino Zapponi The Script as Collage: The Unbound Notebooks of the 1970s Popular Culture and Neurosis: Toby Dammit and Beyond 4 The Poets An Organic Mind: Brunello Rondi from La dolce vita to Provad?orchestra You Are My Labyrinth: The Poetic Brotherhood with Pier Paolo Pasolini Eroticism as Dream and Nightmare: A Dialogue with Brunello Rondi Remembering Corporality: Tonino Guerra in Amarcord and E la nave va Maternal Pre-grammaticality: Pasolini, Guerra, and Zanzotto Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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University of Toronto Press

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1442612924

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9781442612921

Inspiring Fellini

Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes

By: Federico Pacchioni

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Inspiring Fellini

Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes

By: Federico Pacchioni

Federico Fellini is considered one of the greatest cinematic geniuses of our time, but his films were not produced in isolation. Instead, they are the results of collaborations with some of the greatest scriptwriters of twentieth-century Italy. Inspiring Fellini re-examines the filmmaker’s oeuvre, taking into consideration the considerable influence of his collaborations with writers and intellectuals including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, and Andrea Zanzotto. Author Federico Pacchioni provides a portrait of Fellini that is more complex than one of the stereotypical solitary genius, as he has been portrayed by Fellini criticism in the past. Pacchioni explores the dynamics of Fellini’s cinematic collaborations through analyses of the writers’ independently produced works, their contributions to the conceptualization of the films, and their conversations with Fellini himself, found in public and private archival sources. This book is an invaluable resource in the effort to understand the genesis of Fellini’s artistic development.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442616733

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Eight and a Half

By: Federico Fellini,Charles Affron

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Eight and a Half

By: Federico Fellini,Charles Affron

8 1/2 is among the greatest films of one of the masters of Italian cinema, Federico Fellini. This is the first English translation of the dialogue and the first complete continuity script of 8 1/2. This richly comic work, long recognized as the most important expression of the director's views about himself and his art, communicates to its viewers an understanding of the processes of filmmaking itself. 8 1/2 is the story of a director's efforts to make a film; it depicts the conditions of creativity, the struggle waged between the individual and the world, a struggle that finally makes some sense out of life and art.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813512115

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9780813512112

Federico Fellini

Interviews

By: Federico Fellini

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Interviews

By: Federico Fellini

Career-spanning interviews with the director of La Strada, La Dolce Vita, The Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, and 81⁄2

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578068851

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I, Fellini

By: Federico Fellini,Charolette Chandler

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I, Fellini

By: Federico Fellini,Charolette Chandler

Forged from the many conversations Charlotte Chandler conducted with director Federico Fellini over the course of fourteen years, and featuring a forward by Billy Wilder, I, Fellini is a portrait of one of Italy's greatest filmmakers in his own words. In the book, Fellini recounts the stories behind his classic films La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, La Strada, and others, describing the inspirations from which they arose and the struggles to get them filmed. He also speaks at length on actors Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, and Anna Magnani, and on directors Roberto Rossellini, Ingmar Bergman, and Michelangelo Antonioni.

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Cooper Square Press

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1461732050

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A History of Italian Cinema

By: Peter Bondanella,Federico Pacchioni

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A History of Italian Cinema

By: Peter Bondanella,Federico Pacchioni

A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual films being created in Italy in the twenty-first century but also to the rapidly changing priorities of Italian film studies and film scholars. The new edition brings the definitive history of the subject, from the birth of cinema to the present day, up to date with a revised filmography as well as more focused attention on the melodrama, the crime film, and the historical drama. The book is expanded to include a new generation of directors as well as to highlight themes such as gender issues, immigration, and media politics. Accessible, comprehensive, and heavily illustrated throughout, this is an essential purchase for any fan of Italian film.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501307657

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9781501307652

Strada, La

LA STRADA

By: Federico Fellini,Peter Bondanella,Manuela Gieri

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Strada, La

LA STRADA

By: Federico Fellini,Peter Bondanella,Manuela Gieri

According to the American Film Institute, La Strada is one of the most popular films in cinema history. The performances of Giulietta Masina as the waif Gelsomina, Richard Basehart as the Fool, and Anthony Quinn as the strongman Zampano, who buys Gelsomina from her mother and takes her with him on the road, have been acclaimed for their power and sometimes ridiculed for their sentimentality. The debates over what these characters and the story they enact represent--a Christian parable, a journey of self-discovery, a tale of beauty and the beast--and the position of the film within the neo-realist genre, continue today. This new translation and critical edition of the continuity script for La Strada is the only accurate guide to the film in any language. The notes to the shooting script enable the reader to reconstruct some of Fellini's changes while shooting the film. The edition also contains an introduction which analyzes the work's place in film history and within the so-called "crisis of neo-realism," and provides for the first time in English a number of articles on the film's production. Fellini's most important interviews and statements on La Strada are included as well. Finally, two of the best critical analyses of the film, by Frank Burke and Peter Harcourt, are reprinted, along with a number of the contemporary reactions by critics from France (Andre Bazin), Italy (Guido Aristarco), and the United States--including a description of its reception at the Venice Film Festival. The illustrations include some of Fellini's original drawings made during the shooting of the film.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813512379

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A History of Italian Cinema

By: Peter Bondanella,Federico Pacchioni

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By: Peter Bondanella,Federico Pacchioni

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Strada, La

LA STRADA

By: Federico Fellini,Peter Bondanella,Manuela Gieri

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Strada, La

LA STRADA

By: Federico Fellini,Peter Bondanella,Manuela Gieri

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Making a Film

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The Journey of G. Mastorna

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

Fellini On Fellini

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Inspiring Fellini

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Eight and a Half

Eight and a Half

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I, Fellini

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A History of Italian Cinema

A History of Italian Cinema

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