{"product_id":"fellinis-eternal-rome-alessandro-carrera-9781350166257","title":"Fellini's Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini","description":"\u003cb\u003e*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies ***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFellini's Eternal Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic film theory, Carrera introduces the reader to a new appreciation of Fellini's work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife-affirming Franciscanism and repressive Counter-Reformation dogmatism live side by side in Fellini's films, although he clearly tends toward the former and resents the latter. The fascination with pre-Christian Rome shines through \u003ci\u003eLa Dolce Vita\u003c\/i\u003e and finds its culmination in \u003ci\u003eFellini-Satyricon\u003c\/i\u003e, the most audacious attempt to imagine what the West would be if Christianity had never replaced classical Rome. Minimal clues point toward a careful, extremely subtle use of classical texts and motifs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFellini's interest in the classics culminates in \u003ci\u003eOlympus\u003c\/i\u003e, a treatment of Hesiod's \u003ci\u003eTheogony\u003c\/i\u003e for a never-realized TV miniseries on Greek mythology, here introduced for the first time to an English-speaking readership. Fellini's recurrent dream of the Mediterranean Goddess is shaped by the phantasmatic projection of paganism that Christianity created as its convenient Other. His characters long for a \"maternal space\" where they will be protected from mortality and left free to roam. Yet Fellini shows how such maternal space constantly fails, not because the Church has erased it, but because the utopia of unlimited enjoyment is a self-defeating fantasy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alessandro Carrera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350166251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350166257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d","brand":"Alessandro Carrera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941615960319,"sku":"9781350166257","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4872e760-888b-4496-8793-48624fc2b9dd.jpg?v=1681453958","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fellinis-eternal-rome-alessandro-carrera-9781350166257","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}