Dante, Cinema, and Television.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (264 pages)
- Toronto Italian Studies .
- Toronto Italian Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dante and Hollywood -- Early Cinema, Dante's Inferno of 1911, and the Origins of Italian Film Culture -- The Helios-Psiche Dante Trilogy -- Back to the Future: Dante and the Languages of Post-war Italian Film -- Beginning to Think about Salò -- The Off-Screen Landscape: Dante's Ravenna and Antonioni's Red Desert -- Spencer Williams and Dante: An African-American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell -- Television, Translation, and Vulgarization: Reflections on Phillips' and Greenaway's A TV Dante -- Dopo Tanto Veder: Pasolini's Dante after the Disappearance of the Fireflies -- 'Non Senti Come Tutto Questo Ti Assomiglia?' Fellini's Infernal Circles -- Dante and Canadian Cinema -- Dante and Cinema: Film across a Chasm -- Dante by Heart and Dante Declaimed: The 'Realization' of the Comedy on Italian Radio and Television -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Films -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Dante, Cinema, and Televisiondemonstrates the many subtle ways in which Dante's Divine Comedyhas been given 'new life' by cinema and television, and underscores the tremendous extent of Dante's staying power in the modern world.