A cardboard Dante : hell's metropolis revisited
- The subject of this paper is a recent comic movie version of Dante's "Comedy": a 2007 puppet and toy theatre adaptation of the "Inferno" directed by Sean Meredith. It is certainly not the first time that Dante and his theatre of hell appear in this kind of environment. Mickey Mouse has followed Dante's footsteps and very recently a weird bunch of prehistoric animals went a similar path: in part three of the blockbuster "Ice Age" (2009), a new, lippy guide character named Buck uses several Dante quotes and the whole strange voyage can be described as a Dantesque descent into dinosaur hell. In the following pages Ronald de Rooy argues that Meredith's version of Dante's "Inferno" is not only funny and entertaining, but that it is also surprisingly innovative if we compare it to other literature and movies which project Dante's hell or parts of it onto the modern metropolis.
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| Author: | Ronald de Rooy |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-516368 |
| URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-02/rooy_a-cardboard-dante.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-02_21 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-85132-617-8 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | 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 |
| Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
| Place of publication: | Wien |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/10/30 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2019/11/20 |
| Tag: | Meredith, Sean; Meredith, Sean: Inferno Film adaptions; Parody; Productive reception; Puppet films |
| GND Keyword: | Dante Alighieri; Inferno; Rezeption; Adaption <Literatur>; Animationsfilm; Parodie |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| First Page: | 355 |
| Last Page: | 365 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 456536094 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zum Film | |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
