Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction
5. 8 1/2 What? 1
6. A Biographical Sketch 21
7. 8 1/2
8. 8 1/2 29
9. Credits and Cast 31
10. The Continuity Script 37
11. Notes on the Continuity Script 193
12. The Shooting Script 203
13. Contexts, Reviews, and Commentaries
14. Contexts 225
15. A First Draft: A Letter from Federico Fellini to His Friend Brunello Rondi, October 1960 227
16. Chronology of the Shooting of 8 1/2 235
17. Interviews with Federico Fellini 238
18. Interview 239
19. Interview 243
20. Reviews 247
21. I Lost It At the Movies, 249
22. New York Herald Tribune 253
23. A Sampling of Italian and French Reviews 255
24. Commentaries 259
25. Mirror Construction in Fellini's 8 1/2 261
26. 8 1/2 Times Two 267
27. The Guilty Conscience of a Christian Consciousness 274
28. Filmography and Bibliography
29. Fellini Filmography, 1950-1985 285
30. Selected Bibliography 287