Francesca da Rimini al cinema mut americà

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Massimo Ciavolella

En 1908 la Vitagraph Company of America va llançar un curtmetratge de 15 minuts dirigit per J. Stuart Blackton titulat Francesca di Rimini, or the Two Brothers. El mateix director, dos anys més tard, va rodar un segon curtmetratge, Francesca di Rimini, una clara demostració de la notorietat que l'episodi del cinquè cant de l'Infern de Dante gaudia en aquells anys. En 1928 el gran director David Wark Griffith va filmar l'episodi en un llargmetratge mut titulat Drums of Love.

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Francesca da Rimini, cinema muto, cinema americano, J. Stuart Blackton, D. W. Griffith

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Ciavolella, Massimo. «Francesca da Rimini al cinema mut americà». Dante e l’Arte, 2020, vol.VOL 7, p. 175-90, http://raco.cat/index.php/dea/article/view/379025.
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