I am assuming this is in English? If so, does anyone know if an Italian
edition (RAI) is available for purchase?
Robert Colasacco
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Botterill [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 1998 6:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: Query: Dante on radio (preliminary summary)
>
>
> >I will try to get hold of recordings of these productions
>
> The Greenaway/Phillips video is available from Films for the
> Humanities and
> Sciences via their Web site, www.films.com (currently for US$99 plus
> shipping and handling/postage and packing). I find it a useful
> adjunct to
> _Inferno_ courses, whether in Italian or translation, and to more
> general
> introductory courses in Italian culture; the visuals are consistently
> interesting, sometimes brilliant, and the giggle quotient (always a
> danger
> with undergraduate audiences!) is relatively low. Bob Peck and,
> particularly, John Gielgud do a good job of speaking the verse (though
> I
> wish someone had told Peck how to stress "Jacopo"). It often provokes
> interesting responses from students, especially the kind who tend to
> balk
> at reading long literary texts but find greater stimulus in visual
> imagery.
> All you need - at least in the US! - is an initial government health
> warning about the amount of on-screen nudity (rather substantial,
> albeit of
> course textually justified), and away you go...
>
> There's an excellent article on the video by Nancy Vickers in _Dante
> Now_,
> ed. Theodore J. Cachey, Jr (Notre Dame & London: Notre Dame UP, 1995),
> 263-76.
>
> Steven Botterill
>
> Associate Professor of Italian Literature & Romance Philology
> Graduate Adviser, Department of Italian Studies
>
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>
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