Famed director Federico Fellini (1920-1993) spent hours at a time in his studios recording, mixing, and editing music, voices, and numerous sound effects for his films, but his cinematic sound
techniques have largely been ignored by researchers and biographers. Van Order (Italian, Middlebury College) discusses the singularly important part music played in the director's early
black-and-white feature films and how Fellini would create innovative and evocative pairings of music with images on the screen. The author notes that the director's obviously artificial
manipulation of the music underscored a theme of dissonance designed to imply an intertwining of being and seeming, history and story. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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