Further Reading
- Alpert, Hollis. Fellini: A Life. New York: Atheneum, 1986, 337 p. (Discusses Fellini's life and films.)
- Betti, Liliana. Fellini. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979, 249 p. (Memoir by Fellini's friend and assistant, also discusses Fellini's approach to filmmaking.)
- Bondanella, Peter, ed. Federico Fellini: Essays in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978, 314 p. (Wide-ranging anthology of critical perspectives on Fellini's works.)
- Bondanella, Peter. The Cinema of Federico Fellini. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992, 367 p. (Presents critical analyses of various aspects of Fellini's career, including his influences, the neorealistic and political aspects of his works, and the role of dreams, women, and "metacinema" in his films.)
- Burke, Frank. "Federico Fellini: From Representation to Signification." Romance Languages Annual (1989): 34-40. (Examines semiological issues of representation, referentiality, and signification as reflected by and treated in several of Fellini's films.)
- Burke, Frank. Federico Fellini: "Variety Lights" to "La Dolce Vita." Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984, 145 p. (Analyzes several of Fellini's early films, viewing them as "narrative processes vitally concerned with the quality of human experience.")
- Haberman, Clyde. "Fellini Builds Reggiolo, the Town of His Dreams." The New York Times (18 June 1989): 15, 24. (Relates a meeting with Fellini on the set of Voices of the Moon in which Fellini discussed his approach to designing and shooting the film.)
- Insdorf, Annette. "Fellini's Filmic Look at TV in 'Ginger and Fred.'" Los Angeles Times (4 April 1986): sec. VI, pp. 1, 15. (Discusses Ginger and Fred in relation to Fellini's views on the influence of television in modern society.)
- Kauffmann, Stanley. "Better Late." The New Republic 197, No. 9 (31 August 1987): 26-7. (Lauds the publication of the screenplay of 8 1/2.)
- Kezich, Tullio. Fellini. Milan: Camunia, 1987, 567 p. (Considered an authoritative biography of Fellini which debunks several myths surrounding Fellini's life.)
- Lavery, David. "'Major Man': Fellini as an Autobiographer." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 6, No. 2 (Winter 1987): 14-28. (Critical examination of the autobiographical aspects of Fellini's oeuvre.)
- O'Toole, Lawrence. "Saving the Last Dance." Maclean's 99, No. 15 (14 April 1986): 65. (Brief positive review of Ginger and Fred.)
- Schneider, Karen S. "Addio, Maestro." People Weekly 40, No. 20 (15 November 1993): 107-08. (Reminiscences of Fellini occasioned by the director's death. Schneider describes her impression of Fellini based on an interview she held with him late in his career.)
- Siskel, Gene. "'Ginger & Fred': Too Much Fellini, Too Little Grace." Chicago Tribune, No. 101 (11 April 1986): sec. 7, p. A22. (Negative review of Ginger and Fred, lamenting the film's focus on television rather than the reunion of its main characters.)
- Stubbs, John C., with Markey, Constance D., and Lenzini, Marc. Federico Fellini: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978, 346 p. (Bibliography of writings on Fellini through 1978.)
- Thomas, Kevin. "'Ginger, Fred': Dancing to a Fellini Beat." Los Angeles Times (11 April 1986): sec. VI, pp. 1, 26. (Positive assessment of Ginger and Fred, commenting that Fellini's "view of the human comedy remains wise and compassionate—even as it grows ever more pessimistic.")
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