Eight 1/2 Federico Fellini / / / Charles Affron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Affron, Charles,
• Author: Affron, Charles,
• MitwirkendeR: Affron, Charles,; Costantini, Costanzo,; Crist, Judith,; Fellini, Federico,; Kael, Pauline,; Metz, Christian,; Pechter, William S.,; Solmi, Angelo,; Zand, Nicole,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : : Rutgers University Press, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Series: Rutgers Films in Print series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)

8 1/2 is among the greatest films of one of the masters of Italian cinema, Federico Fellini. This is the first English translation of the dialogue and the first complete continuity script of 8 1/2. This richly comic work, long recognized as the most important expression of the director's views about himself and his art, communicates to its viewers an understanding of the processes of filmmaking itself. 8 1/2 is the story of a director's efforts to make a film; it depicts the conditions of creativity, the struggle waged between the individual and the world, a struggle that finally makes some sense out of life and art.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 8 1/2 What? -- A Biographical Sketch -- 8 1/2 -- 8 1/2 -- Credits and Cast -- The Continuity Script -- Notes on the Continuity Script -- The Shooting Script -- Contexts, Reviews, and Commentaries -- Contexts -- A First Draft: A Letter from Federico Fellini to His Friend Brunello Rondi, October 1960 -- Chronology of the Shooting of 8 1/2 -- Interviews with Federico Fellini -- Interview -- Interview -- Reviews -- I Lost It At the Movies, -- New York Herald Tribune -- A Sampling of Italian and French Reviews -- Commentaries -- Mirror Construction in Fellini's 8 1/2 -- 8 1/2 Times Two -- The Guilty Conscience of a Christian Consciousness -- Filmography and Bibliography -- Fellini Filmography, 1950-1985 -- Selected Bibliography