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A TV Dante : Inferno [Cantos I-VIII] / directed by Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips ; written by Tom Phillips ; produced by Denis Wigman, Kees Kasander.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PN1997 .I49 1990
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Video art.
- video art.
- Inferno (Dante Alighieri).
- Television adaptations.
- Genre:
- Television adaptations.
- Television mini-series.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Inferno, Cantos I-VIII
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Digital Classics, [2011], ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English dialogue.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, Region 0; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; monaural.
- Summary:
- Peter Greenaway's collaboration with the artist Tom Phillips transforms one of the greatest and best known works of art, Dante's 600 year old Inferno, into a post-modern television piece. Utilizing radical new visual techniques, Greenaway and Phillips illustrate and illuminate Dante's text with dazzling imagery and a soundtrack that comments, counterpoints and clarifies. There are visual footnotes delivered by relevant authorities, and these often perform the function of narration as well as explanation. The result is a multilayered video journey through Dante's vision of the underworld, or hell.
- Participant:
- John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley.
- Credits:
- Camera, Edwin Verstegen [and others] ; editor, John Wilson.
- Notes:
- "A K.G.P. Ltd Dante B.V. co-production with Channel Four Television and RM Associates."
- Special feature: M is for Man, Music, Mozart / written and directed by Peter Greenaway (30 min.).
- Contains:
- M is for man, music, Mozart.
- OCLC:
- 1112999032
- Publisher Number:
- 5037899014837
- 1115DC Digital Classics
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