Federico Fellini professed a desire to create an entire film made of immobile pictures. In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini s films as sequences of pictures that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir of visual imagery. Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of visual evocations overlooked by Fellini scholars over the years.

Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film sheds light on the intertextual links between Fellini s films and...