Television, Translation, and Vulgarization: Reflections on Phillips' and Greenaway's A TV Dante

Chapters in this book

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