{"product_id":"9781119431534","title":"A Companion to Federico Fellini","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA Companion to Federico Fellini\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrank Burke | Marguerite Waller | Marita Gubareva\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini \u003c\/i\u003epresents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director’s films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini’s works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs the centennial of Federico Fellini’s birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini’s films and illustrates Fellini’s importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini’s early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of “Short Takes” sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini’s work\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses Fellini’s creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his \u003ci\u003eBook of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e published after his death.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines Fellini’s influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa.  \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini’s work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertmüller\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini’s work\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Burke\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at Queen's University, Canada. He is editor of the \u003ci\u003eWiley Blackwell Companion to Italian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and author of several books on Federico Fellini. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarguerite Waller\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFederico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Postcolonial Cinema Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarita Gubareva\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance researcher and journalist based in Rome. 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