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La dolce vita, we might say, represents a magisterial attempt on Fellini’s part to reinvent the modernist cultural sensibility in the terms of 1960s European cinema. And yet ­Fellini’s phenomenology of spectacularization and media hysteria provides as well one of the first holistic readings of the symptoms of modernism’s demise in contemporary culture. ”23 Not only does the film seem lacking in any “authorial intent” to cele­ brate the postmodern, as Burke rightly remarks, but it suggests an attitude that I would say already exemplifies a certain weariness and suspicion toward  Sweetness postmodern mass culture.

If sites such as the Via Veneto, the Caracalla baths, the Fontana di Trevi, and the sixteenth-century Odescalchi castle at Bassano di Sutri give the film a complement of opulent, one-of-a-kind, theatrical settings for sustained visual reveries, the modern suburbs of Rome represent the “wake-up call” of a mass-produced reality where life cannot be sweet. The episode involving Marcello’s night on the town with his father dramatically encapsulates the film’s sobering historical outlook. After a boisterous evening of dancing and drinking at the Kit-Kat club, Marcello’s father accompanies the dancer Fanny to her apartment in the EUR.

22 Offering itself as the ultimate modernist signifier, cinema revives modernism at the very moment of its exhaustion. La dolce vita, we might say, represents a magisterial attempt on Fellini’s part to reinvent the modernist cultural sensibility in the terms of 1960s European cinema. And yet ­Fellini’s phenomenology of spectacularization and media hysteria provides as well one of the first holistic readings of the symptoms of modernism’s demise in contemporary culture. ”23 Not only does the film seem lacking in any “authorial intent” to cele­ brate the postmodern, as Burke rightly remarks, but it suggests an attitude that I would say already exemplifies a certain weariness and suspicion toward  Sweetness postmodern mass culture.

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