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Federico Fellini
Manufacturer: Rizzoli International Publications
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ASIN: 0847818780
Release Date: 1995-07-15 |
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This is the first detailed appraisal of Federico Fellini's universe. Collected here, in addition to a biography and filmography, is a wealth of previously unpublished material allowing a detailed and often personal view of the master of cinema.
Published for the first time in these pages are the texts for four films Fellini never made, complete with sketches and notes; and the director's correspondence with other filmmakers, artists, and famous writers. Fellini's descriptions of his dreams, accompanied by splendid drawings, allow a glimpse of the subconscious world that contributed so much to the creation of his films. His comic strips of unmade films provide an intriguing account of his activity in the last years of his life. The filmography is illustrated with posters, sketches, and stills from all of Fellini's masterpieces - including his best-loved La Strada, 8 1/2, The Clowns, La Dolce Vita, Roma, Amarcord, and La Voce Della Luna.
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- Meet the man known as Fellini.
- A simple introduction to a complex man.
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Fellini on Fellini
Federico Fellini
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ASIN: 0306806738 |
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Like a colossus, Federico Fellini bestrides the history of Italian cinema. Four times winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, over the course of his career Fellini created a body of work - La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Roma, to name a few - that was distinctly his own.
He called the cinema a circus, and stated that if he hadn't become a film-maker he would have been a circus director. Together with actors like Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina he created films that were visually and emotionally rich, comic and profoundly moving.
This book is a free-ranging series of discussions that reach deep into the heart of Fellini's creative process, illustrated by the drawings and sketches that were an indispensable part of his artistic process.
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Meet the man known as Fellini........2006-08-07
At first I didn't understand as to why I couldn't put this novel down. I won't lie there is a 40 page slightly confusing introduction by Fellini that jumps back and forth from different periods down memory lane. However it's exactly that which makes you realize these words are Fellini's and only his. We get his insight into basically every film he ever made just with the introduction; and then he gives us the dish on how they all came to be. I have read a few of these "on" books and this is the first that truly interested me. Fellini was a genius and saw the world in a way we could only try to understand through his films. Thankfully to those resposible for trascribing all of his writings and materials this book will also help.
A simple introduction to a complex man........1999-11-10
There is no better way to get into the mindset of Fellini than through his own words. This unassuming book is full of the director's thoughts and motivations. From behind the scene anectdotes to descriptions of scenes never filmed this is an excellent place to start learning about the movie world's best director ever!
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The films of Federico Fellini (1920-1993) dealt equally with truth-tellers and pretenders, realists and fabulists. His colorful, surreal vision of cinema is so distinctive that the term "Felliniesque" is common among film buffs, even those who have not seen any of his films. This collection of interviews spans the director's entire career from 1957 to 1993.
Fellini began making films shortly after World War II working in a style similar to the Italian neorealists Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, but he soon distinguished himself from them by introducing elements of his dreams into his movies. While his earlier masterpieces—such as I Vitelloni, La Strada, and The Nights of Cabria—are realistic in setting and plot, his post-1960 films are baroque and surrealist. Even 8½, one of his recognized masterpieces and widely regarded as a veiled autobiography, is deeply fantastical.
Fellini used his feverish imagination in interviews as well. His friends and enemies alike were quick to call him a bugiardo—a big liar. It is perhaps more accurate to note that, as in his films, Fellini understood the inherent theatricality of all performance, including the interview form, and that artifice is just as revealing as plain truth. In his conversations with interviewers and the media, he often blurred the line between factual truth and sheer invention.
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“Trenchant in its critical analysis, absorbing and sympathetic in its account of his private life, Kezich’s Fellini is a revelation. It effaces virtually everything written to date about the Italian maestro . . . This engrossing biography mirrors its subject. It’s affectionate, garrulous and often rambling, and in sudden flashes of brilliance it offers a penetrating view of Fellini’s life and art.” —Peter Cowie, The Nation
“Few writers are able to approach Fellini with the privilege of intimate experience and friendship . . . Kezich fills the pages of this biography with uncommon detail and artistry, presenting a chronicle that weaves life with film, fact with fantasy, in a style reminiscent of the great director’s avant-garde style . . . For the aficionado of Fellini’s works, this narrative of his life provides a sea of subtle, precious anecdotes. To those yet unacquainted with the Italian master, the book is an introduction not only to the man’s life, but his art, also. It’s a captivating read.” —Karoun Demirjian, The Christian Science Monitor
“Kezich’s forty-year friendship with the maestro allows him to offer up an intimate and lively portrait of Fellini filled with revealing anecdotes and psychological insight.” —Michel Ciment, author of Kubrick and Kazan on Kazan
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Hagiography, not biography.......2006-04-26
Tullio Kezich claims to have been a long time friend of Federico Fellini and perhaps that's one of the several reasons this biography is very disappointing.
Kezich approaches his subject as an insider, someone who shared the same social circle and perhaps artistic pretensions. (Kezich is descibed as a film critic, author of numerous boks on cinema and a playwright.)
The book is worshipful of Fellini, talks a lot about parties, drops a lot of names, but gives precious little information about Fellini. What information it does provide reads more like a campaign tract for sainthood. Comments such as "[t]he grief over his death is indescribable" add nothing to our understanding of Fellini as man or artist.
The situation is not helped by Kezich's writing style which, charitably, can only be described as bloated and pretentious. Perhaps the blandness is partly due to translation. Paragraphs run on forever, sentences are often incomplete and reminiscent of a high school student trying really, really hard to be impressive.
Amazingly, for a book about one of the greatest of all film makers, there is not a single photograph. Likewise the author presumes that any one reading the book will remember every detail of Fellini's films, most of which I haven't seen in 30 years or so.
I had hoped for a biography that would lead me into Fellini's life and mind. Instead all I got was a list of parties he went to and some fluffly, adulatory prose about great his movies were. I already knew that --- I wanted to know more about Fellini made such great movies. Not in this book.
Jerry
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Bluefeather Fellini
Max Evans
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Born in New Mexico at the end of World War I, Bluefeather Fellini is half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian. Throughout his life, Bluefeather enjoys roaming and seeking his fortunes elsewhere, but he is always drawn back to Taos, the home of his Indian mother. During times of danger, he is visited by Dancing Bear, his spirit guide, who interjects ageless humor into situations when needed. And his Aunt Tulip Everhaven usually has a brew made from sagebrush that helps Bluefeather put his troubles into perspective.
"[Max Evans is] a sage voice of the West."--The New York Times
The narrative tone changes dramatically to describe Bluefeather's participation in D-Day and the subsequent push into Germany in harrowing, unsentimental detail; these nearly surreal passages are war writing at its best. . . . a highly engaging epic."--Publishers Weekly
"A strong sense of place permeates the text; the high-desert world of northern New Mexico provides realistic and spiritual elements that add mythic quality to a leisurely-told tale with a large cast of colorful characters. This is a work of peculiar power."--Library Journal
This classic of American fiction tells the story of the travels of Bluefeather Fellini, a half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian who always returns to his mother's home of Taos, New Mexico.
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Federico Fellini: The Complete Films.......2003-09-09
Given the numerous volumes already been dedicated to Fellini's cinematic genius, one wonders if there is anything new to say about the man who invented the `paparazzi', put Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain and a rhinocerous in a boat. But given that few have ever watched `La Dolce Vita' without scratching their heads about the big fish at the end, this new book by Chris Wiegand comes as a welcome read.
The book takes us on a whirlwind journey through Fellini's life, from his birth in Rimini in 1920 to the cutting edge of fashionable Italian life. Like Paris in the 20s or Berlin in the 30s, Rome was the place to be in the 50s. And Federico Fellini was the unquestionably the man who showed us how sweet and ugly Roman life was (most notably in `La Dolce Vita' and `81/2'). Fellini's later, more `interesting' work is also given equal consideration, despite being rather unfashionable and clearly less accomplished.
On first inspection, Wiegand's book has all the hallmarks of a beautiful-pictures-no-content coffee table book (though without the typically astronomical price-tag). However, what actually makes this book a real delight is the text. Most previous efforts have been dense, rather offputting volumes, but the tone here strikes a shrewd balance between anecdote and more serious analysis, neither overloading us with rumour and revelation nor coming across as chin-strokingly academic. The strongest parts of the book deal with Fellini's emergence and embracing of his role as observer of human desires and idiosyncrasies. Wiegand's uncomplicated handling of Fellini's relationship with his own image and the often misunderstood symbolism in his work is particularly insightful.
Ultimately, Fellini emerges as the colourful ringmaster who not only lived his dreams but put them on film for the rest of the world to enjoy. Like the man himself, `Federico Fellini: The Complete Films' is a compulsive and fascinating read both for newcomers and cinephiles alike.
So anyway, about the fish...
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Bluefeather Fellini Vol. II
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Release Date: 1995-07-01 |
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Fellini!
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ASIN: 8884917689
Release Date: 2004-01-03 |
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A catalog of a delightful and very Felliniesque drawings by the master Italian film director, now on view in conjunction with a film festival at the Guggenheim Museum, New York
Federico Fellini, the master of the Italian art film, was an active visual artist for whom drawing was integral to the creative process. Fellini's funny, grotesque and irreverent sketches of faces, voluptuous women, costumes and larger scenes Fellini fans will recognize reveal an obsession with line and form. Rarely viewed sketches for his films, excerpts from his illustrated dream journals, and a late body of erotic drawings set new, ever larger boundaries for the Fellini vision. Fellini's lifelong affinity for the comic strip is seen in a range of works which were conceived as films but ultimately realized as strips and graphic books. The remarkable body of drawings, cartoons, and caricatures in this catalogue attest to the primacy of drawing in his technique and provides a new insight into the working mind of a film genius.
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Presents the basic structural concepts of music theory, from the beginning to the more advanced, within the context of popular and commercial music.
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The response to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Puzzle Book #1 was so overwhelming it demanded an encore performance. So premier puzzle maker Stephanie Spadaccini — a 30-year veteran in the field — went back to the Bathroom Reader archives to seek out more tantalizing trivia to craft into more fun puzzles. As Hollywood knows, sequels are challenging, but Spadaccini has managed a second act that is, if anything, better than the first. Here again are the most popular types of puzzles — word searches, crosswords, criss-crosses, anagrams, crypto quizzes, double-crostics, and brainteasers — along with crypto lists, trivia quizzes, palindromes, and more, all ranked by difficulty. This book is sure to satisfy those who want to sharpen their pencils and begin a session of mental aerobics.
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Perfect for the hard to please person who needs a gift........2007-03-10
My husband never relaxes he is always either at work or working on the house. I bought him the set of four of these puzzle books. He loves challenging his mind and learning new things. This series is great at getting him to sit for awhile. He still is doing something but resting at the same time. My teenage kids also have gotten in on reading and doing these books. We love the whole bathroom reader collection. I have even given bathroom reader books to my in laws as presents and they love them as well. Its a gotta have book in our house.
GREAT!!!.......2007-01-19
This book had all the puzzles that I love and a great mix of them too. It also has a few fun facts and stories to keep things interesting. Love it.
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Puzzle Book.......2007-01-03
I did not buy the book for myself but for my son who is (sad to say) currently in jail. He did enjoy the book and it helped to pass the time and I will be ordering him another the books soon. Thanks
So much fun!.......2003-06-09
This is a puzzle book like no other -- it's got something for everyone. The crosswords and other puzzles are very high quality (but not necessarily hard) and the quizzes are fun and funny, just like the Uncle John readers. We've been playing it together as a family and we've been consistently amazed and amused. Other puzzle books usually concentrate on one kind of puzzle, but this one has a great variety of fun stuff to do. We can't wait for the next one!
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Don’t let that brain get flabby! Flexing the frontal lobes keeps them in shape, and when better to do it than when the body is otherwise occupied? Flush with the success of Number One and Number Two, the Bathroom Readers’ Institute tapped into the talents of puzzle maven Stephanie Spadaccini to compile entry Number Three in the popular Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Puzzle Book series. The book includes crosswords, cryptograms, crostics, word searches, anagrams, trivia quizzes, and other popular puzzles suitable for both quick trips and extended stays.
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Best puzzle book series ever!.......2006-05-31
If you like puzzles and lots of them, this is the book! There are (soon to be) four books in the series and I can hardly wait for the next once my husband and I have finished one. The style is witty and the puzzle makers are all names that I recognize from the New York Times crossword puzzles, so the quality is excellent.
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Now with SUDOKU! You don't need to know Japanese or scary math to become addicted to the puzzle that’s sparked a worldwide craze. This jam-packed collection of puzzles, featuring the talents of leading puzzle experts whose work has appeared in everything from The New York Times and The Washington Post to People and Games Magazine includes crosswords, acrostics, anagrams, word search puzzles — and the new international favorite: sudoku puzzles.
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Not as great as the #2 puzzle book.......2007-10-03
These puzzle books are really great. I have the #2 book and had so much fun on all the puzzles. Some were challenging but so much fun overall. My 12 yr old even took it over for a time.
This #4 book is too challenging and not that much fun. The crosswords are really hard for the average person. I have given up on them completely and that is a bummer as I do love crosswords (and don't like to have to look up the answers in the back of the book for every answer).
Great Motto.......2007-04-11
I totally agree with the book's tag line:
"Don't just sit there, do something!"
I've gone through the first 3 books already and every one of them has been great. Very few puzzles had errors (a few phantom words in the word searches) and many of the puzzles were very challenging and required a little extra help to complete (mainly the crosswords). Worth it for sure!
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Talking Television: An Introduction to the Study of Television (Hodder Arnold Publication)
Graeme Burton
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This new textbook introduces students to three main approaches to television study: culturalist, postmodernist, and gender perspectives, explaining challenging concepts such as ideology, institution, and audience with plenty of concrete examples and illustrations.
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