Dante, the Inferno / Channel Four Television, Elsevier Vendix, VPRO ; produced by Denis Wigman, Kees Kasander ; directed by Tom Phillips, Peter Greenaway.

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Radical, new visual techniques are used to bring the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno to the screen. The film illustrates and complements Dante's text, re-creating a 600 year-old work as a late twentieth century post-modern masterpiece. Eminent scholars in visual sidebars interpret Dante's meta...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:DVD collection (Princeton, N.J.)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Vendex Film
VPRO
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Other Authors: Wigman, Denis (Producer)
Kasander, Kees (Producer)
Greenaway, Peter (Director)
Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022 (Director)
Gielgud, John, 1904-2000 (Actor)
Peck, Bob, 1945-1999 (Actor)
Whalley, Joanne, 1964- (Actor)
Booth, Laurie (Actor)
Wooldridge, Susan (Actor)
Crowley, Susan (Actor) (Actor)
Eddison, Robert, 1908-1991 (Actor)
Verstegen, Edwin (Cinematographer)
Wilson, John (Film editor)
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, [2004]
Series:DVD collection (Princeton, N.J.)
Subjects:
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Television adaptations.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321. > Inferno > Criticism, Textual.
Hell > Drama.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321.
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
Hell.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Drama.
Educational television programs.
Experimental films.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television adaptations.
Television mini-series.
Genre:
Television adaptations.
Drama.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Educational television programs.
Experimental films.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television mini-series.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Inferno
Dante's Inferno
Format: Video DVD

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