Insightful and informed by a deep knowledge and dedication to ‘auteurship,’ Stubbs goes far beyond what one usually finds in film studies. Stubbs presents the most thorough, comprehensive, and in-depth treatment to date of the entire cinematic oeuvre of Fellini. “Federico Fellini as Auteur is a significant piece of scholarship that is unlikely to be surpassed for quite some time. Renowned Italian director Federico Fellini (19201993) conjured a cinema of dreams that defined the style of post-war Italy. When he is good, he is very good, and his sensitivity to the nuances of Fellini’s films is admirable: no trendy jargon, just good, honest criticism that makes the reader see Fellini in a new light.”-Peter Bondanella, author of The Films of Federico Fellini One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8 marks the moment when the director’s always-personal approach to filmmaking fully embraced self-reflexivity, pioneering a stream-of-consciousness style that darts exuberantly among flashbacks, dream sequences, and carnivalesque reality, and turning one man’s artistic. Here, Stubbs shines and provides analysis that no other scholar has done better or more thoroughly. Stubbs does not follow the tradition of the one film/one chapter format employed by most auteur authors, he opens wide the discussion on interesting topics. “Federico Fellini as Auteur adds new and important criticism to the literature on the filmmaker.
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