摘要：This paper focuses on one of the most unique experiments in the
history of television: A TV Dante, a fourteen-episode mini-series which
aired between 1990 and 1991, partly directed by Tom Phillips and Peter
Greenaway, and partly by Raúl Ruiz. We will analyze A TV Dante as an
early attempt to explore the aesthetic potential of television seriality
through the adoption of an avant-garde approach towards a
fundamental work of the Western canon. We will begin by analyzing
Phillips’ illustrated Inferno as a work aimed at constructing a multilayered
and totalizing representation of the Inferno’s own reception, of
the history of mediality and of Phillips’ own identity as an artist. We
will then show how the poetics of Phillips’ and Greenaway’s A TV
Dante are shaped by what we may call the aesthetics of the moving
collage. We will finally focus on Rúiz’s A TV Dante, which dismantles
all coherent narrative structures, transforming Dante’s Inferno into a
series of powerful images, symbols and visions.
其他摘要：This paper focuses on one of the most unique experiments in the history of television: A TV Dante, a fourteen-episode mini-series aired between 1990 and 1991, partly directed by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway, partly directed by Raoul Ruiz. We will analyse A TV Dante as an early attempt to explore the aesthetic potential of television seriality adopting an avant-garde approach towards a fundamental work of the Western canon. More specifically, we will compare Phillips-Greenaway and Ruiz’s approaches to the Inferno in order to highlight the formal, aesthetic and conceptual strategies that guide their respective works. Drawing on Phillips’ previous illustrations for the Inferno, the British duo creates an abstract video-otherworld through the use of collage and a rich visual symbology. On the other hand, Ruiz chooses a thoroughly contemporary re-reading of the cantica by setting the action in Santiago de Chile and moving between political commentary and surreal, hauntingly mysterious scenes.
关键词：Dante Alighieri;Divine Comedy;adaptation;television;Peter Greenaway;Tom Phillips;Raoul Ruiz;intermediality;video art
