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Fellini's Eternal Rome - Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini (Hardcover)
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Fellini's Eternal Rome - Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing
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*** 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.
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