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Rock music holds you together but finding your creative voice will tear you apart. 1977. New York City where Blondie, Patti Smith, and The Ramones found fame. A whirlwind of classic rock, drugs, urban recession, and drag queens. The city is on edge but that doesn’t scare sixteen-year-old rock guitarist Joni Corso who moves in with her estranged father. Joni’s dad who runs a popular rock venue supports her musical goals, hoping that she finds fame and money. In no time, Joni meets Phaedra, a girl on a mission to destroy rock idols and the mainstream with her band No!. Joni learns the kind of music that out punks Punk, the kind of music that will not sell records or gain fame. The kind of music her father, who she just found, might not accept. Buy a ticket now for Breaking Fellini and journey through 1977 New York where you’ll find your voice in a time of fantasy and rebellion.
A lively and authoritative journey into the world of a cinema master With the revolutionary 8 1/2, Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens in 1963, permanently impacting the art of cinema in the process. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini confidant Tullio Kezich has written the work by which all other biographies of the filmmaker are sure to be measured. In this moving and intimately revealing account of a lifetime spent in pictures, Kezich uses his friendship with Fellini as a means to step outside the frame of myth and anecdote that surrounds him—much, it turns out, of the director's own making. A great lover of women and a meticulous observer of dreams, Fellini, perhaps more than any other director of the twentieth century, created films that embodied a thoroughly modern sensibility, eschewing traditional narrative along with religious and moral precepts. His is an art of delicate pathos, of episodic films that directly address the intersection of reality, fantasy, and desire that exists as a product of mid-century Italy—a country reeling from a Fascist regime as it struggled with an outmoded Catholic national identity. As Kezich reveals, the dilemmas Fellini presents in his movies reflect not only his personal battles but those of Italian society. The result is a book that explores both the machinations of cinema and the man who most grandly embraced the full spectrum of its possibilities, leaving his indelible mark on it forever.
Fellini follows the life and career of master Italian film director, Federico Fellini. Drawing on interviews with the filmmaker himself, as well as his colleagues, Hollis Alpert investigates the man and the legend while defining the boundaries between the two. “Hollis Alpert’s new biography is filled with wonderful anecdotes about Fellini’s creative life. The book makes me want to see the films all over again.” — Paul Mazursky
Some people in your life never die. Some come back but not as you expect. Four years now, psychic Miki Radicci has suffered the loss of her criminal father. Unlike her sister Prudy, she watched him die and knew one day he would return…somehow. The day has come. Miki’s father returns in the body of a four-year-old boy named Eric. The adopted son of her greatest enemy. The woman who never ages and breeds the evil within humanity. Mara. Miki and Prudy face two options. Either watch Mara raise Eric for a dark future or risk everything in their lives to save him. Buy this heart-wrenching dark urban fantasy about daughters given a second chance to save their father from a fate worse than death now.
Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker’s reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini’s cinema as an individual expression of the nation’s “mythical biography,” the director’s most celebrated themes and images — a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival — become symbols of Italy’s traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.
*** 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.
Author : M. Thomas Van Order Publisher : Associated University Presse Page : 288 pages File Size : 48,5 Mb Release : 2009 Category : Music ISBN : 083864175X
"The editing of music in Fellini's first films represents an entirely new approach to cinematic sound. The sophistication and complexity of Fellini's soundtracks far surpasses the neorealist models that are often assumed to form the practical foundation of Fellini's earliest works, and an analysis of the editing of music in these films reveals extraordinary innovation in the pairing of music and visual image."--BOOK JACKET.
A Companion to Federico Fellini by Frank Burke,Marguerite Waller,Marita Gubareva Pdf
A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director’s films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini’s works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation. As the centennial of Federico Fellini’s birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini’s films and illustrates Fellini’s importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini’s early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of “Short Takes” sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume: Offers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini’s work Discusses Fellini’s creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his Book of Dreams published after his death. Examines Fellini’s influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa. Demonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini’s work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture. Features personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertmüller Includes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini’s work The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies.
Forever a circus ringleader at heart, Fellini is remembered as one of cinema's greatest storytellers. Each film of his is analyzed and examined in this collection that includes movie posters.
THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections: THE SILENT ERA (1895–22) THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA (1922–45) POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE (1945–59) THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA (1960–80) AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION (1981 TO THE PRESENT) NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA Acutely aware of the contemporary 'rethinking' of Italian cinema history, Peter Bondanella has brought together a diverse range of essays which represent the cutting edge of Italian film theory and criticism. This provocative collection will provide the film student, scholar or enthusiast with a comprehensive understanding of the major developments in what might be called twentieth-century Italy's greatest and most original art form.
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She has the one psychic ability that will change the world for the better or the worse. Teen psychic Miki Radicci has worked with Elite on solving a few murders but this one is different. She must experience the death of a burnt body. No. The police are not involved. Tel-Com, the corporation that funds Elite, is the client. Miki quickly learns that Tel-Com has no interest in finding the killer of the burnt body. They want to know who the body saw at the time of his/her death: a twelve-year-old girl. Going against orders and her own kind, Miki searches for the little girl wanted dead or alive. A little girl that may change the world. Join the many readers of this fast-paced, action-filled urban fantasy that starts from the concrete sprawl of Manhattan and ends in the outer reaches of the woods where no one can find the bodies.
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The man she hates returns and now she must save him before it’s too late. Just as teen psychic Miki Radicci returns to work on her art, Federal Marshals searching for her uncle who recently escaped from prison knock on her door. Oddly, her grandfather is missing, too. All that remain of the two most important men in her life is a list of doctors who were deep in secret psychic research, half of which had been murdered. Pursued by a vengeful federal agent, Miki tries to solve a string of murders weaved tight with her crime-ridden family. This time, the truth may steal her sanity and life. Buy this suspenseful and thrilling dark psychic fantasy and join the many thrilled readers of this highly-rated series.
Cities that Eat Islands (Book 2) by M.E. Purfield Pdf
A killer haunts New York, his victims are young, black women, and his pursuer is relentless. Within the racially conflicted streets of 1963 New York, psychic and artist Carmella Noto tries to maneuver a working-class life and watch out for her non-verbal autistic brother Enzo. But her past only brings her to the attention of a secret group of psychics intent on solving difficult murders. They want Carmella’s help to find a degenerate murdering single, young black women. Completely unaware that the killer wants Carmella. Buy this mysterious dark fantasy that pushes deeper into long coveted secrets, low-level criminals, and the dangerous desire found within them.