TY  - CHAP
A1  - Havely, Nick
T1  - 'Hell on a paying basis' : morality, the market, and the movies in Harry Lachman's "Dante's Inferno" (1935)
T2  - Metamorphosing Dante : appropriations, manipulations, and rewritings in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart ; Cultural Inquiry ; 2
N2  - The 1935 Fox Films "Dante's Inferno" (directed by Harry Lachman) traces the rise and fall of an entrepreneur. Its protagonist, Jim Carter (played by Spencer Tracy), begins the story as a stoker on a cruise liner. The narrative opens with a burst of flames from the ship's boiler, and the ensuing scene goes on to show the protagonist competing at shovelling coal for a bet in the sweltering engine-room. Interspersed are shots of the superstructure directly above with a number of elegant and vapid passengers following the game below. This initial sequence thus concisely conveys the main features of the film's social agenda through imagery that anticipates that of two of its later 'infernal' sequences. [...] Spectacular admonition and concern about the ruthless pursuit of wealth are the main features which link this "Inferno" of the thirties to the one that had appeared some six hundred years earlier. Wealth and avarice were, of course, demonstrably serious concerns for Dante: as Peter Armour, for example, has shown, there is a recurrent and pervasive concern with money, its meaning, and its misuse throughout the "Commedia". So it is not surprising that the "Inferno" should also have been appropriated by social critics some hundred years before the 1935 Hollywood fable. [...] Some of the narrative and visual patterns in "Dante's Inferno" imply an uneasy underlying vision of the movie industry and its practices. Other productions, publicity, and journalism of the time reinforce suggestions of such a metafictional approach to movies, morality, and the market in the 1935 "Dante's Inferno".
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - Inferno
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Adaption <Literatur>
KW  - Film
KW  - Lachman, Harry
KW  - Lachman, Harry: Dante's Inferno
KW  - Productive reception
KW  - Film adaptions
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Motion picture
KW  - Capital market
KW  - Gesellschaftskritik
KW  - Moral
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51581
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-515814
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-02/havely_morality-and-the-market.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-617-8
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 269
EP  - 284
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -