Federico Fellini

by Cardullo, Bert

• ISBN13: 9781578068852
• ISBN10: 1578068851
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

The films of Federico Fellini (1920-1993) deal equally with truth-tellers and pretenders, realists and fabulists. His colorful, surreal vision of cinema is so distinctive that the term "Felliniesque" is common among film buffs, even those who have not seen any of his films. This collection of interviews spans the director's entire career from 1957 to 1993.Fellini began making films shortly after World War II, working in a style similar to the Italian neorealists Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, but he soon distinguished himself from them by introducing elements of his dreams into his movies. While his earlier masterpieces--such asI Vitelloni,La Strada, andThe Nights of Cabiria--are realistic in setting and plot, his post-1960 films are baroque and surrealist. Even8 1/2, one of his recognized masterpieces and widely regarded as a veiled autobiography, is deeply fantastical.Fellini's feverish imagination is evident in interviews as well. His friends and enemies alike were quick to call him a buggiardo--a big liar. It is perhaps more accurate to note that Fellini understood the inherent theatricality of all performance, including the interview form, and that artifice is just as revealing as plain truth. In his conversations with interviewers and the media, he often blurred the line between truth and sheer invention.Bert Cardullo is a professor of English and American literature at Fatih University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author ofIn Search of Cinema: Selected Writings on International Film ArtandVittorio De Sica: Director, Actor, Screenwriter, among other books.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Chronology	xix
Filmography	xxv
An Interview with Federico Fellini	3	(6)
George Bluestone
The Road Beyond Neorealism: An Interview with Federico Fellini	9	(8)
Gideon Bachmann
Federico Fellini: An Interview	17	(6)
Enzo Peri
Interview with Federico Fellini	23	(12)
Gideon Bachmann
Playboy Interview: Federico Fellini	35	(19)
``I Was Born for the Cinema'': A Conversation with Federico Fellini	54	(14)
Irving R. Levine
Federico Fellini: Discussion	68	(14)
James R. Silke
Federico Fellini: An Interview	82	(33)
Charles Thomas Samuels
Federico Fellini: ``The Cinema Seen as a Woman''	115	(12)
Gideon Bachmann
And His Ship Sails On: Federico Fellini Interviewed	127	(12)
Gideon Bachmann
Fellinissimo	139	(18)
Germaine Greer
``Chatting about Other Things'': An Interview with Federico Fellini	157	(16)
Toni Maraini
Fellini in Conversation	173	(7)
Anna Muzzarelli
``I Am a Storyteller'': An Afternoon with Federico Fellini	180	(2)
Mary Cantwell
Federico Fellini: Great Half-and-a-Half Movie Director	182	(8)
Liselotte Millauer
``A Guest in My Own Dreams'': An Interview with Federico Fellini	190	(15)
Gideon Bachmann
Index	205