Fellini’s Eternal Rome - Professor Alessandro Carrera

Fellini’s Eternal Rome

Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini
Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-9761-5 (ISBN)
124,70 inkl. MwSt
*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies ***

In Fellini’s Eternal Rome, 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.

Life-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 La Dolce Vita and finds its culmination in Fellini-Satyricon, 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.

Fellini’s interest in the classics culminates in Olympus, a treatment of Hesiod’s Theogony 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.

Alessandro Carrera is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Italian Studies and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. He has written on Italian and Comparative Literature, Italian and Continental Philosophy, music, and cinema. He has translated into Italian three novels of Graham Greene and all the songs and prose of Bob Dylan.

Series Editor’s Preface
Author’s Preface

Introduction. What is Wrong with Fellini?

1. Fellini, Dante, and the Gaze of Medusa
2. Fellini and Rossellini: the “Trilogy of Faith” (1946-1950)
3. La Dolce Vita or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Sins
4. 8 ½ or Trouble in Paradise
5. Fellini-Satyricon I: An Archaeology of Silence
6. Fellini-Satyricon II: “Seek Out the Ancient Mother” (Aeneid III, 96)
7. Roma: Barbarians Inside the Gates
8. From City of Women to The Voice of the Moon: Fall of the Goddess

Bibliography
Index of Names and Films

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 458 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4742-9761-7 / 1474297617
ISBN-13 978-1-4742-9761-5 / 9781474297615
Zustand Neuware
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