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...

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