{"product_id":"federico-fellini-francis-burke-9780802006967","title":"Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003eFederico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing a range of recent critical filters, including semiotic, psychoanalytical, feminist and deconstructionist. Accordingly, a number of important themes arise - the reception of fascism, the crisis of the subject, the question of agency, homo-eroticism, feminism, and constructions of gender. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the early 1970s, a slide in critical and theoretical attention to Fellini's work has corresponded with an assumption that his films are self-indulgent and lacking in political value. This volume moves the discussion towards a politics of signification, contending that Fellini's evolving self-reflexivity is not mere solipsism but rather a critique of both aesthetics and signification. The essays presented here are almost all new - the two exceptions being important signifiers in Fellini studies. The first, Frank Burke's \"Federico Fellini: Reality\/Representation\/Signification\" laid the foundation in the late 1980s for considering Fellini's work in the light of postmodernism. The second, Marguerite Waller's \"Whose Dolce Vita is this Anyway?: The Language of Fellini's Cinema\" (1990), provides a contemporary re-reading of Fellini's most successful film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis lively and ambitious collection brings a new critical language to bear on Fellini's films, offering fresh insights into their underlying issues and meaning. In bringing Fellini criticism up to date, it will have a significant impact on film studies, reclaiming this important director for a contemporary audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francis Burke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802006965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802006967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.04w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2003 pg. 991","brand":"Francis Burke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086319661311,"sku":"9780802006967","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6f49cc2-9df9-4345-8bd8-a972090ae955.jpg?v=1769094010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/federico-fellini-francis-burke-9780802006967","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}