3. Fellini and Lacan: The Hollow Phallus, the Male Womb, and the Retying of the Umbilical

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Chronology xiii
6. Illustrations xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Federico Fellini: Realism/Representation/Signification 26
9. 2. Subtle Wasted Traces: Fellini and the Circus 47
10. 3. Fellini and Lacan: The Hollow Phallus, the Male Womb, and the Retying of the Umbilical 65
11. 4. When in Rome Do As the Romans Do? Federico Fellini's Problematization of Femininity (The White Sheik) 92
12. 5. Whose Dolce vita Is This, Anyway? The Language of Fellini's Cinema 107
13. 6. ′Toby Dammit′, Intertext, and the End of Humanism 121
14. 7. Fellini's Amarcord: Variations on the Libidinal Limbo of Adolescence 137
15. 8. Memory, Dialect, Politics: Linguistic Strategies in Fellini's Amarcord 155
16. 9. Fellini's Ginger and Fred: Postmodern Simulation Meets Hollywood Romance 169
17. 10. Cinecittà and America: Fellini Interviews Kafka (Intervista) 188
18. 11. Interview with the Vamp: Deconstructing Femininity in Fellini's Final Films (Intervista, La voce della luna) 209
19. Selected Bibliography 233
20. Filmography 235
21. Contributors 237