《白酋長(英语:The White Sheik)》(1952年)是費里尼首部單獨執導的電影,由阿尔贝托·索尔迪(Alberto Sordi)所主演。這部電影是根據米開朗基羅·安東尼奧尼於1949年所編寫的劇本所修飾的。安東尼奧尼原先提供這部劇本給亞伯托‧拉陶達,但是拉陶達因為不滿意劇本而作罷。費里尼後來在卡洛·蓬蒂(Carlo Ponti)的支持下,將它搬上大螢幕。
The influence of Jung and Italian popular culture such as the Corriere dei Piccoli on Fellini's style are closely examined in Peter Bondanella, The Cinema of Federico Fellini, (Princeton:Princeton University Press), 1992.
Fellini scholar Peter Bondanella argues that although "it is indeed an Italian family name, the word paparazzo is probably a corruption of the word papataceo, a large and bothersome mosquito. Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, reports that he took the name from a character in a novel by George Gissing." Cited in Bondanella, Peter, The Cinema of Federico Fellini, Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. 136. The title of Gissing's novel is By the Ionian Sea (1901).
參見Bernardino Zapponi所著的傳記《Il mio Fellini》 (Roma:Marsilio Editori, 1995)與《I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon》中相關的章節, ed. Damian Pettigrew (New York: Abrams, 2003).
Fellini, Federico (1988). Comments on Film. Ed. Giovanni Grazzini. Trans. Joseph Henry. Fresno: The Press of California State University at Fresno.
— (1993). I disegni di Fellini. Ed. Pier Marco De Santi. Roma: Editori Laterza.
— and Damian Pettigrew (2003). I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8478-3135-3
— and Tullio Pinelli. Trip to Tulum. Trans. Stefano Gaudiano and Elizabeth Bell. New York: Catalan Communications.
Alpert, Hollis (1988). Fellini: A Life. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1-55778-000-5
Bondanella, Peter (1992). The Cinema of Federico Fellini. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00875-2
— (2002). The Films of Federico Fellini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Burke, Frank, and M. R. Waller (2003). Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-7647-5
Kezich, Tullio (2006). Federico Fellini: His Life and Work. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006. ISBN 978-0-571-21168-5
Miller, D. A. (2008). 8 1/2. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Betti, Liliana (1979). Fellini: An Intimate Portrait. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Bondanella, Peter (ed.)(1978). Federico Fellini: Essays in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press.
Fellini, Federico (2008). Fellini's Book of Dreams. New York: Rizzoli.
Panicelli, Ida, and Antonella Soldaini (ed.)(1995). Fellini: Costumes and Fashion. Milan: Edizioni Charta. ISBN 88-86158-82-3
Rohdie, Sam (2002). Fellini Lexicon. London: BFI Publishing.
Tornabuoni, Lietta (1995). Federico Fellini. Preface Martin Scorsese. New York: Rizzoli.
Walter, Eugene (2002). Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet. Ed. Katherine Clark. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-609-80965-2