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Mediated Utopias : From Literature to Cinema.
Title:
Mediated Utopias : From Literature to Cinema.
Author:
Blaim, Artur.
ISBN:
9783653040876
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (247 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- On Utopia, Adaptation, and Utopian Film Analysis (Artur Blaim And Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Works Cited -- H.G. Wells's and Cameron Menzies' Things To Come: A Neurotic Utopia of Progress (Justyna Galant) -- Works Cited -- The "Speaking Picture": Frank Capra's Adaptation of James Hilton's Lost Horizon (Katarzyna Pisarska) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Works Cited -- Visualizing the "Shadow World": Dystopian Reality in the Film Adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four (Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga) -- 1984 (1956) -- 1984 (1984) -- Works Cited -- "As if it wasn't a good island": Failed and Forgotten Utopias in the Cinematic Adaptations of William Golding's Lord of the Flies (Artur Blaim) -- Adaptations -- Works Cited -- The World in (Dis)harmony: Yevgeni Sherstobitov's The Andromeda Nebula (Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk) -- Works Cited -- Between the Scylla of Estrangement and the Charybdis of Naturalisation: Two Television Adaptations of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Grzegorz Maziarczyk) -- Works Cited -- From Philip K. Dick's Dystopian World to Hollywood Utopian Vision: "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," Wunderkammer, Memory and Total Recall (Zofia Kolbuszewska) -- Works Cited -- From Ideal Community to the Land of Cockayne: Redefining Utopia in The Secret Garden by Agnieszka Holland (Barbara Klonowska) -- Utopian space -- Utopia of desire -- Vanishing utopia? -- Works Cited -- Dystopian Topography of Noise: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Bruce Pittman, and Chandler Tuttle (Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim) -- "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut (1961) -- Harrison Bergeron, dir. Bruce Pittman (1995) -- 2081, dir. Chandler Tuttle (2009) -- Works Cited -- Parts Unknown: Strategies of Disappropriation in Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go (Marta Komsta) -- 1 -- 2 -- Part I: Hailsham, 1978.

Part II: The Cottages, 1985 -- Part III: Completion, 1994 -- 3 -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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