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Frank Burke
Frank Burke is professor emeritus at Queen’s University (Canada). He has published five books on Federico Fellini, most notably, in 2020, Wiley Blackwell’s A Companion to Federico Fellini, edited with the late Marguerite Waller and with Marita Gubareva (John Wiley & Sons), and his own Fellini’s Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern (Intellect and University of Chicago Press, 2020). He has provided the audio commentary, along with the late Peter Brunette, for the Criterion Collection release of Fellini’s Amarcord (2006), as well as solo commentaries for Criterion’s Roma (2017) and Il bidone (2020). All three are part of Criterion’s Essential Fellini box set released in November 2020. In terms of non-Fellini publications, he edited Wiley Blackwell’s A Companion to Italian Cinema (John Wiley & Sons, 2017) and has published on the Italian peplum, Dario Argento, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lina Wertmüller, Mario Camerini, Roberto Rossellini, William Friedkin, Sam Peckinpah, Michael Cimino, horror cinema, experimental cinema and Canadian cinema.