Fellini’s Films and Commercials

Frank Burke is professor emeritus at Queen’s University at Kingston in Ontario, Canada. He is the author and editor of several books, including Federico Fellini: Variety Lights To La Dolce Vita, the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Italian Cinema and (with Marguerite Waller and Marita Gubareva) the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini.

'Burke’s study is truly comprehensive and confronts a broad spectrum of topics from psychology and spirituality to film and camera theory, to name just a few. The author never leaves the reader unprepared for the next analysis, as he delivers important background information for context. What is most appreciated is Burke’s approach to his study as a whole. He supplies a meticulously detailed map in Fellini studies and equips readers with abundant knowledge to navigate through each film. However, he never forecloses readers’ own supplementary connections. Indeed, the monographic structure of the study directly encourages such engagement. The sharp and ever detailed analysis, which is at the study’s core, not only honours Fellini’s genius through his complexity, but it also inspires readers to appreciate and learn more about the beloved Italian director. Burke’s revised edition of his 1996 publication will continue to benefit scholars in future studies of the great Federico Fellini and his work.'

• Preface and Acknowledgements to the 2020 EditionPreface and Acknowledgements to the 1996 EditionChapter One: Fellini in ContextChapter Two: Individuation Denied: Variety Light to Il BidoneChapter Three: Individuation and 'Creative Negation': Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce VitaChapter Four: Film about Film and Modernist Self-Reflexivity: The Temptation of Dr. AntonioChapter Five: 8½, Juliet of the Spirits, and Toby DammitChapter Six: The Individual in Crisis from 8½ to Fellini- SatyriconChapter Seven: The Individuation of Art versus Character: Fellini-Satyricon and The ClownsChapter Eight: Art and Individuality Dissolved: Roma, Amarcord, and Orchestra RehearsalChapter Nine: Postmodern Reproduction: Fellini’s Casanova to Intervista (and La Dolce Vita Revisited)Chapter Ten: The Voice of the MoonChapter Eleven: Fellini's CommercialsChapter Twelve: Politics, Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation