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Spencer Williams and Dante: An African-American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction ix
- Dante and Hollywood 1
- Early Cinema, Dante's Inferno of 1911, and the Origins of Italian Film Culture 21
- The Helios-Psiche Dante Trilogy 51
- Back to the Future: Dante and the Languages of Post-war Italian Film 74
- Beginning to Think about Salò 97
- The Off-Screen Landscape: Dante's Ravenna and Antonioni's Red Desert 106
- Spencer Williams and Dante: An African-American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell 129
- Television, Translation, and Vulgarization: Reflections on Phillips' and Greenaway's A TV Dante 145
- Dopo Tanto Veder: Pasolini's Dante after the Disappearance of the Fireflies 153
- 'Non Senti Come Tutto Questo Ti Assomiglia?' Fellini's Infernal Circles 166
- Dante and Canadian Cinema 176
- Dante and Cinema: Film across a Chasm 189
- Dante by Heart and Dante Declaimed: The 'Realization' of the Comedy on Italian Radio and Television 213
- Notes on Contributors 225
- Index of Films 229
- Index of Names 235
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction ix
- Dante and Hollywood 1
- Early Cinema, Dante's Inferno of 1911, and the Origins of Italian Film Culture 21
- The Helios-Psiche Dante Trilogy 51
- Back to the Future: Dante and the Languages of Post-war Italian Film 74
- Beginning to Think about Salò 97
- The Off-Screen Landscape: Dante's Ravenna and Antonioni's Red Desert 106
- Spencer Williams and Dante: An African-American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell 129
- Television, Translation, and Vulgarization: Reflections on Phillips' and Greenaway's A TV Dante 145
- Dopo Tanto Veder: Pasolini's Dante after the Disappearance of the Fireflies 153
- 'Non Senti Come Tutto Questo Ti Assomiglia?' Fellini's Infernal Circles 166
- Dante and Canadian Cinema 176
- Dante and Cinema: Film across a Chasm 189
- Dante by Heart and Dante Declaimed: The 'Realization' of the Comedy on Italian Radio and Television 213
- Notes on Contributors 225
- Index of Films 229
- Index of Names 235
