Federico Fellini al Marc'Aurelio: un reticolo intermediale tra scrittura, grafica, pubblicità e spettacolo

Abstract The thesis examines the early years of Federico Fellini in Rome and his work within the editorial staff of the satirical magazine «Marc'Aurelio» (1939-1943). The state of the art starts from the interventions of Jean Antoine Gili, Peter Bondanella, Françoise Pieri and Aldo Tassone who have all highlighted the importance of this phase in the Fellinian creativity, In the nuce are themes and essential elements of its future film activity. From a methodological point of view, the interp corpus was first reconstructed by direct consultation at the Sormani Library in Milan, the APICE Center, the Alessandrina Library in Rome and the National Library in Florence. After mapping the material, it was determined what were the peculiarities of the magazine and the role it played in the Italian media scene at that time, considering whether and how it was possible to satirize during the fascist dictatorship; it was therefore necessary to contextualize the role of propaganda during the regime and the means used by it: radio, cinema, urban space, media; the advent of mass culture and the importance of advertising has been investigated in a particular way, dedicating a chapter to it, starting from the studies of Stefania Antonioni and Vanni Codeluppi. It was therefore possible to show that the period spent by Fellini in the editorial staff should be considered as a kind of apprenticeship of great importance; here, in fact, on the one hand, Fellini has the opportunity to bring out and refine its multifaceted creativity alongside great personalities such as Metz, Maccari, Steno, Mosca and Attalo, on the other hand, uses the journalistic space as a springboard to other media spaces: the radio, first with writing together with Maccari of the advertising message for Elah, then with the radio magazines, cinema, first author of gags for films starring Erminio Macario, then during the contemporary period to' A.C.I. by Vittorio Mussolini, sent in 1942 to set in Libya of the Tuareg Desert, as reported by Roberto Chiesi, finally screenwriter, played by Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Magnani, considered by Andrea Minuz and Gian Piero Brunetta as the first steps towards the neo-Realist turn