MAKING A FILM

Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini 19201993 is one of the most renowned figures in world cinema Director of a long list of critically acclaimed motion pictures including La strada La dolce vita 8½ and Amarcord Fellinis success helped strengthen the international prestige of Italian cinema from the 1950s onward Often remembered as an eccentric auteur with a vivid imagination and a penchant for quasiautobiographical works the carnivalesque and Rubenesque women Fellinis inimitable films celebrate the creative potential of cinema as a medium and also provide thoughtprovoking evocations of various periods in Italian history from the years of fascism to the age of Silvio Berlusconis media empire In Making a Film Fellini discusses his childhood and adolescence in the coastal town of Rimini the time he spent as a cartoonist journalist and screenwriter in Rome his decisive encounter with Roberto Rossellini and his own movies from Variety Lights to Casanova The director explains the importance of drawing to his creative process the mysterious ways in which ideas for films arise his collaborations with his wife Giulietta Masina his thoughts on fascism Jung and the relationship between cinema and television Often comic sometimes tragic and rife with insightful comments on his craft Making a Film sheds light on Fellinis life and reveals the motivations behind many of his most fascinating movies Available for the first time in its entirety in English this volume contains the complete translation of Fare un film the authoritative collection of writings edited and reworked by Fellini and initially published by Giulio Einaudi in 1980 The text includes a new translation of the Italo Calvino essay A Spectators Autobiography an introduction by Italian film scholar Christopher B White and an afterward by Fellinis longtime friend and collaborator Liliana Betti