The Two Hundred Days of 8 1/2 [The Genesis of Fellini's Masterpiece] 1964 Deena Boyer ~ day by day on the set with Federico Fellini

Title: The Two Hundred Days of 8 1/2 [The Genesis of Fellini's Masterpiece]

Author: Deena Boyer

Description: Stated First printing. Gray cloth boards with black lettering and purple ornaments on spine. Has a thin bit of dampstain along top edge of volume (visible on top edge of jacket's front panel; top edge of front board, and lightly affecting the first 30 pages, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket's front panel has a short closed tear to bottom edge of front panel; not price clipped ($7.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. vi, 218. 10 x 7.75 inches. A very attractive copy of an uncommon book, with minor flaws.

A vivid account of the day-to-day planning, the people, and the problems that went into the making of Fellini's 1963 film 8 1/2. Written by Deena Boyer, a personal friend of Fellini's, and presented as entries in her daily journal. Her record captures the fragile texture of life on the motion picture set: how ideas are germinated, how the grow (and sometimes wither) and how the people--Fellini, the cast, makeup artists, propmen, designers, and grips--work and play.

Illustrated with stills from the film, photographs of Fellini, his actors, and his staff at work on the set. Afterword by Dwight Macdonald.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: Macmillan Company
Place: New York
Year: 1964

Keywords: Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Italian, cinema, films, movie directors, movie production, surrealist, filmmakers,