Dante, Cinema, and Television / / ed. by Amilcare Iannucci.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Caputo, Ring,; Colonnese Benni, Vittoria,; Fink, Guido,; Iannucci, Amilcare A.,; Kirkham, Victoria,; Lesperance, Gabrielle,; Looney, Dennis,; Rumble, Patrick,; Taylor, Andrew,; Testa, Bart,; Tulk, John,; Waller, Marguerite R.,; Welle, John P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Iannucci, Amilcare,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1265?1321) is one of the seminal works of western literature. Its impact on modern culture has been enormous, nourishing a plethora of twentieth century authors from Joyce and Borges to Kenzaburo Oe. Although Dante's influence in the literary sphere is well documented, very little has been written on his equally determining role in the evolution of the visual media unique to our times, namely, cinema and television. Dante, Cinema, and Television corrects this oversight.The essays, from a broad range of disciplines, cover the influence of the Divine Comedy from cinema's silent era on through to the era of sound and the advent of television, as well as its impact on specific directors, actors, and episodes, on national/regional cinema and television, and on genres. They also consider the different modes of appropriation by cinema and television. Dante, Cinema, and Television demonstrates the many subtle ways in which Dante's Divine Comedy has been given 'new life' by cinema and television, and underscores the tremendous extent of Dante's staying power in the modern world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index of Names