Asa Nisi Masa, the Glossary
"Asa Nisi Masa" is a well-known nonsense phrase used during a key scene in Federico Fellini's 1963 film 8½.[1]
Table of Contents
21 relations: Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Anima and animus, Carl Jung, Citizen Kane, Federico Fellini, Free jazz, Grindstone (album), In Search of Lost Time, MacGuffin, Madeleine (cake), Marcel Proust, Marcello Mastroianni, Nervous Cabaret, NISI MASA, Offerings (Typhoon album), Orson Welles, Peter Bondanella, Pig Latin, Shining (Norwegian band), Typhoon (American band), 8½.
- 1963 neologisms
- Federico Fellini
- Nonsense
- Quotations from film
Abdalqadir as-Sufi
Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born Ian Stewart Dallas; 1930 – 1 August 2021) was a Scottish Muslim leader and author.
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Anima and animus
The anima and animus are a syzygy of dualistic, Jungian archetypes among the array of other animistic parts within the Self in Jungian psychology, described in analytical psychology and archetypal psychology, under the umbrella of transpersonal psychology.
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Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology.
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Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.
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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
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Free jazz
Free jazz, or Free Form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.
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Grindstone (album)
Grindstone is the fourth studio album by the Norwegian band Shining, released in 2007 by Rune Grammofon.
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In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.
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MacGuffin
In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself.
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Madeleine (cake)
The madeleine or petite madeleine is a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France.
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Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927.
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Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor and one of the country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century.
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Nervous Cabaret
Nervous Cabaret is an American punk-cabaret band from Brooklyn, New York, which formed in 2002.
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NISI MASA
NISI MASA is a nonprofit organization promoting young professionals in the European film industry.
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Offerings (Typhoon album)
Offerings is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Typhoon.
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.
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Peter Bondanella
Peter Bondanella (1943–2017) was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Italian, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies at Indiana University, United States.
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Pig Latin
Pig Latin is a language game, argot, or cant in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving the onset or initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable (usually -ay or /eɪ/) to create such a suffix.
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Shining (Norwegian band)
Shining (stylized as SHINING) is a Norwegian experimental band from Oslo.
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Typhoon (American band)
Typhoon is an American indie rock band based in Portland, Oregon.
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8½
(Italian title: Otto e mezzo) is a 1963 comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini.
See also
1963 neologisms
- A rising tide lifts all boats
- Asa Nisi Masa
- Beatlemania
- British Invasion
- Capitalist realism
- Faceless men
- Four Modernizations
- I Have a Dream
- Ich bin ein Berliner
- Iron Girls
- Jock (stereotype)
- Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!
- Well he would, wouldn't he?
Federico Fellini
- Asa Nisi Masa
- Federico Fellini
- Federico Fellini bibliography
- Fellini 712
- Fellini Days
- In Search of Fellini
- Paparazzi
- Rimini Fellini Airport
- Satiricosissimo
Nonsense
- Asa Nisi Masa
- Asemic writing
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
- Dada
- Etaoin shrdlu
- Gibberish
- Gibberish language
- Literary nonsense
- Lorem ipsum
- Mojibake
- Nonsense
- Nonsense poetry
- Nonsense song
- Technobabble
Quotations from film
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- Asa Nisi Masa
- Beep, beep (sound)
- Bye, Felicia
- Charlie Don't Surf
- D'oh!
- Enna kodumai Saravanan idhu?
- Follow the money
- Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
- Go ahead, make my day
- Hakuna matata
- Hasta la vista, baby
- Houston, we have a problem
- I'll be back
- I'll steal it! No one will ever know!
- Inka Dinka Doo
- Klaatu barada nikto
- Knights Who Say "Ni!"
- Let's All Go to the Lobby
- List of movie misquotes
- Love means never having to say you're sorry
- Maaltake Garite Tol
- Moses supposes his toeses are roses
- My Little Chickadee
- Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
- Said the actress to the bishop
- See You Next Wednesday
- Shaken, not stirred
- Show Me the Money
- Singin' in the Rain (song)
- Stinking badges
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- The full catastrophe
- Up to eleven
- Walk this way (humor)
- What's Up, Doc?
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
- Who's on First?
- Why a Duck?
- Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah