{"product_id":"9780802076472","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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016306442480,"sku":"9780802076472","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802076472_p0.jpg?v=1763726169","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802076472","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}