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Offering fresh insights and personal anecdotes, Carrera details the doubts, conflicts, and artistic decisions made by the director during his long career in the cinema. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice * Alessandro Carrera's engagement with Fellini is both personal and intellectual. In this groundbreaking study, he compellingly unpacks the Italian director's at times perplexing aesthetics by bringing to light the conflictual relation between the Pagan and the Christian elements that recur in his cinematic production. The unresolved relation at the centre of Fellini's cinematography provides a critical key to the understanding of his artistic genius. Alessandro Carrera's sophisticated knowledge of both the classical world and contemporary Italian society, together with his consummate ability to draw original and convincing connections between seemingly distant literary and artistic discourses, produces a compelling re-interpretation of Fellini's films. An engaging critical journey, an enjoyable narrative replete with captivating anecdotes, Alessandro Carrera's study is a must for Fellini's present and future scholars and an essential reading for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of one of Italy's greatest cinematographers. * Simona Wright, Professor of Italian, The College of New Jersey, USA *

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Alessandro Carrera is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Italian Studies and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. He has written on Italian and Comparative Literature, Italian and Continental Philosophy, music, and cinema. He has translated into Italian three novels of Graham Greene and all the songs and prose of Bob Dylan.

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