FELLINI'S 'AMARCORD' AND THE ANTI-FASCIST TREND IN '60S AND '70S ITALIAN CINEMA
In this episode Fellini specialist Frank Burke discusses 'Amarcord' with Russ and ken, with briefer considerations of Visconti's 'The Damned' and Pasolini's 'Salo: 120 Days of Sodom' and the wider trend for revisionist films on fascism in the late 1960s and early '70s. After discussing the torrid political atmosphere of the period and the influential ideas of Gramsci and Reich we move on to the structure of 'Amarcord', the interesting resonances of the title, Fellini's use of characters speaking directly to camera and the film's circular structure and especially humour (the latter perhaps due…
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