Dante and the car: a didactic cross-media path · The invention and diffusion of cars in the 20th century have had a great impact on modern society. The importance of car culture in social imagination has been reflected in several Dantesque readings and works. For example Charon’s ferry and the trip on Geryon’s back started to be read as an anticipation of the auto- motive voyage by creative minds in the areas of advertisement, literature, cinema, and comics. At first, complying to Marinetti’s Manifesto, Dantesque verses had become a starting point for the exaltation of means of transport and the fascination for them. Later at the end of century, the new environmental awareness encouraged an opposite interpretation of the car, seen as a potentially infernal vehicle
Dante e l'automobile: un percorso didattico intermediale
Delio De Martino
2019-01-01
Abstract
Dante and the car: a didactic cross-media path · The invention and diffusion of cars in the 20th century have had a great impact on modern society. The importance of car culture in social imagination has been reflected in several Dantesque readings and works. For example Charon’s ferry and the trip on Geryon’s back started to be read as an anticipation of the auto- motive voyage by creative minds in the areas of advertisement, literature, cinema, and comics. At first, complying to Marinetti’s Manifesto, Dantesque verses had become a starting point for the exaltation of means of transport and the fascination for them. Later at the end of century, the new environmental awareness encouraged an opposite interpretation of the car, seen as a potentially infernal vehicleI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
