How the Self-Referential Structure of Fellini's ;8 +; Defines the Film as an Auteurist Production.
This paper will discuss the work of a director who is generally acknowledged to be one of the great auteurs of modern cinema, Federico Fellini. It will be argued that his film "8 +" (1963) produces meaning through the tension between the director's personality and the material with which he is working; one of the defining elements of "auteurist" cinema. This paper will demonstrate that what renders "8 +" a work of an auteur is the extent to which Fellini mines the familiar pattern of self-reference - a signature of Fellini as auteur - to such a degree as to make the exploration of radical subjectivity into an objective statement about the role of the director as auteur and his function within the filmic text. 6 pgs. 9 f/c. 7b.
