Full Description
The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies, The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World, Total Recall, The Secret Garden, Harrison Bergeron and Never Let Me Go. It focuses not only on the ways of constructing fictional realities and techniques of rendering literary utopias/dystopias into film, but also on their cultural and political determinants.
Contents
Contents: Artur Blaim/Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim: On Utopia, Adaptation, and Utopian Film Analysis - Justyna Galant: H.G. Wells's and Cameron Menzies's Things To Come: A Neurotic Utopia of Progress - Katarzyna Pisarska: The «Speaking Picture»: Frank Capra's Adaptation of James Hilton's Lost Horizon - Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga: Visualizing the «Shadow World»: Dystopian Reality in the Film Adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Artur Blaim: «As if it wasn't a good island»: Failed and Forgotten Utopias in the Cinematic Adaptations of William Golding's Lord of the Flies - Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk: The World in (Dis)harmony: Yevgeni Sherstobitov's The Andromeda Nebula - Grzegorz Maziarczyk: Between the Scylla of Estrangement and the Charybdis of Naturalisation: Two Television Adaptations of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Zofia Kolbuszewska: From Philip K. Dick's Dystopian World to Hollywood Utopian Vision: «We Can Remember It for You Wholesale», Wunderkammer, Memory and Total Recall - Barbara Klonowska: From Ideal Community to the Land of Cockayne: Redefining Utopia in The Secret Garden by Agnieszka Holland - Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim: Dystopian Topography of Noise: «Harrison Bergeron» by Kurt Vonnegut, Bruce Pittman, and Chandler Tuttle - Marta Komsta: Parts Unknown: Strategies of Disappropriation in Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go.
