Companion to Federico Fellini

Frank Burke is Professor Emeritus at Queen's University, Canada. He is editor of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Italian Cinema and author of several books on Federico Fellini.Marguerite Waller is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She has co-edited volumes in both feminist studies and cinema studies, including Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives and Postcolonial Cinema Studies.Marita Gubareva is a freelance researcher and journalist based in Rome. Her research interests include seventeenth-century and late nineteenth-century aesthetics and Italian cinema.

• Notes on Contributors xiEditors’ Notes xxiForeword xxiiiPreface xxixAcknowledgments xxxvGlossary xxxviiPart I Fellini and Friends 11 Introduction 3Marguerite Waller and Frank Burke2 Fellini, the Artist and the Man: An Interview with Vincenzo Mollica 13Frank Burke (with Marita Gubareva)3 Fellini: Backstory and a Dream 27Goffredo Fofi4 A Certain Freedom in Filmmaking 31Lina Wertmüller5 A Bit of Everything Happened: My Experience of La dolce vita 35Valeria Ciangottini6 Fellini a Casa Nostra 37Carlo and Luca VerdonePart II Beginnings, Inspirations, Intertexts 417 Neorealism Masked: Fellini’s Films of the 1950s 43Stefania Parigi8 Fellini’s Graphic Heritage: Drawings, Comics, Animation, and Beyond 59Marco Bellano9 In Bed with Fellini: Jung, Ernst Bernhard, Night Work, and Il libro dei sogni 79Erika Suderburg10 Fellini and Esotericism: An Ambiguous Adherence 95Federico Pacchioni11 Circo Fellini 109Adriano Aprà12 Fellini’s Sense of Place 117John Agnew13 “Il viaggio di G. Mastorna”: Fellini Entre Deux Morts 129Alessandro Carrera14 An “Incapacity to Affirm”: Fellini’s Aesthetics and the Decadent Movement 141Marita Gubareva15 Fellini and Fashion, a Two?way Street: An Interview with Gianluca Lo Vetro 153The EditorsPart III Collaborations 16316 Ennio, Tullio, and the Others: Fellini and His Screenwriters 165Giaime Alonge17 Fellini and His Producers: Strange Bedfellows 177Barbara Corsi and Marina Nicoli18 Masina and Mastroianni: Reconfiguring C. G. Jung’s Animus and Anima 191Victoria SurliugaPart IV Aesthetics and Film Language 20519 “Io non me ne intendo”: Fellini’s Relationship to Film Language 207Marco Vanelli20 Fellini’s Visual Style(s): A Phenomenological Account 223Hava Aldouby21 The Liquid Hyperfilm: Fellini, Deleuze, and the Sea as Forza Generatrice 237Amy Hough?Dugdale22 Sounding Out Fellini: An Aural Continuum of Voices, Musics, Noises 251Antonella Sisto23 Fellini and the Aesthetics of Intensity 267Paolo Bertetto24 Egli Danza: Fellini’s Contexts and Influence from Before Rossellini to Sorrentino and Beyond 279Vito ZagarrioPart V Contemporary Dialogues 29325 Remote Control Politics: Federico Fellini and the Politics of Parody 295Kriss Ravetto?Biagioli26 “Il Maestro” Dismantles the Master’s House: Fellini’s Undoing of Gender and Sexuality 311Marguerite Waller27 Racial Difference and the Postcolonial Imaginary in the Films of Federico Fellini 331Shelleen Greene28 Environmental Fellini: Petroculture, the Anthropocene, and the Cinematic Road 347Elena M. PastPart VI Receptions, Appropriations, Dispersions 36129 Fellini’s Critical Reception in Italy 363Nicola Bassano30 Fellini’s Reception in France 377Albert Sbragia31 The Fellini Brand: Marketing Appropriations of the Fellini Name 391Rebecca Bauman32 Fellini Remixed: Anglo?American Film and Television Appropriations 403Frank Burke33 Il ritorno in patria: From Rimini to Winnipeg by Way of the Alps 419Russell J. A. Kilbourn34 Fellini and South Asian Cinemas 425Esha Niyogi De35 Interview with Tanvir Mokammel 429Esha Niyogi De36 Roma, Fellini, and Me 433Amara Lakhous37 Fellini and Turkey: Influence and Image 435Cihan Gündo?du38 Fellini in Japan 439Earl Jackson39 Fellini in Russia 445Naum Kleiman40 Fellini in the Cuban Context 451Luciano Castillo, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Mario Naito López, Mario Masvidal, and Rebeca ChávezPart VII Short Takes on Individual Films 45541 Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik 1952) 457Dom Holdaway42 La strada (1954) 461Giuseppe Natale43 Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)—Cabiria in the Classroom: Teaching Fellini in the Twenty?first Century 465Áine O’Healy44 La dolce vita (1960) 471Mark Nicholls45 Oh, My 8½ 475Caroline Thompson46 Giulietta degli spiriti ( Juliet of the Spirits): A Twenty?First Century Users’ Guide 479Erika Suderburg47 Fellini ? Satyricon 483Cristina Villa48 Roma: Amor Through the Looking?Glass 487Rebecca West49 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellini’s Casanova) in the Age of #MeToo 491Alberto Zambenedetti50 Prova d’orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal) and E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) 495John Paul Russo51 Intervista: There are No Rules 499Elan MastaiAppendices Foundations and Archives for Fellini Research 503Appendix A Rimini and Fellini: The Fondazione Fellini, the Cineteca di Rimini, the Museo Fellini, and CircAmarcord 505Marco AndreucciAppendix B Additional Archival Sources 507The EditorsIndex, Terms and Issues 511Index, Names and Titles 521

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