COLL-E 103 15558 Fellini: Film and Fantasy (Bondanella) (A & H) (3 cr.)

TUESDAY EVENING FILM VIEWINGS REQUIRED.

This course introduces the student to Italy’s greatest film director, a man who in 1992 was voted the most important film director in the history of the cinema by 100 directors and people in the industry (edging out Orson Welles!). The same professional people in 1992 voted two of his films, La strada and 8 1/2, as among the best 10 films ever shot. We shall read a number of essays, interviews, and critical works devoted to Fellini and Italian film culture. The focus of the course will be upon how a personal vision, even a poetic and fantastic perspective, may be developed in a medium that is too often seen as only a business or a low-brow form of entertainment.