{"product_id":"mediated-utopias-from-literature-to-cinema-9783631628447","title":"Mediated Utopias: From Literature to Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian\/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: \u003ci\u003eThings to Come\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLost Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Andromeda Nebula\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTotal Recall\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarrison Bergeron \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«The range of works analyzed is so rich and covers such a substantial period of time in the history of cinema (from 1933 until the present), that the book is able to provide an outstanding perspective of the evolution of utopia\/dystopia-inspired cinema and become a great source for researchers.» (Pere Gallardo-Torrano, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)\u003cbr\u003e «Anyone who doubts that film adaptations can have their own artistic and intellectual integrity apart from their literary sources will find this volume enlightening. The authors of these essays demonstrate that, while film adaptations do sometimes denature their literary originals, others often distinctly improve on their originals, employing autonomous aesthetic principles and achieving new political and cultural relevance.» (John M. Krafft, Miami University, Ohio)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Artur Blaim\/Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim: On Utopia, Adaptation, and Utopian Film Analysis – Justyna Galant: H.G. Wells’s and Cameron Menzies’s \u003ci\u003eThings To Come\u003c\/i\u003e: A Neurotic Utopia of Progress – Katarzyna Pisarska: The «Speaking Picture»: Frank Capra’s Adaptation of James Hilton’s \u003ci\u003eLost Horizon – \u003c\/i\u003eUrszula Terentowicz-Fotyga: Visualizing the «Shadow World»: Dystopian Reality in the Film Adaptations of \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four –\u003c\/i\u003e Artur Blaim:\u003ci\u003e «\u003c\/i\u003eAs if it wasn’t a good island»: Failed and Forgotten Utopias in the Cinematic Adaptations of William Golding’s \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies –\u003c\/i\u003e Andrzej Sławomir\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eKowalczyk: The World in (Dis)harmony: Yevgeni Sherstobitov’s \u003ci\u003eThe Andromeda Nebula –\u003c\/i\u003e Grzegorz Maziarczyk:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBetween the Scylla of Estrangement and the Charybdis of Naturalisation: Two Television Adaptations of \u003ci\u003eBrave New World \u003c\/i\u003eby Aldous Huxley – Zofia Kolbuszewska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFrom Philip K. Dick’s Dystopian World to Hollywood Utopian Vision: «We Can Remember It for You Wholesale», Wunderkammer, Memory and \u003ci\u003eTotal Recall – \u003c\/i\u003eBarbara Klonowska: From Ideal Community to the Land of Cockayne: Redefining Utopia in \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Garden \u003c\/i\u003eby Agnieszka Holland – Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDystopian Topography of Noise: «Harrison Bergeron» by Kurt Vonnegut, Bruce Pittman, and Chandler Tuttle – Marta Komsta: Parts Unknown: Strategies of Disappropriation in Mark Romanek’s \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044231086423,"sku":"9783631628447","price":48.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediated-utopias-from-literature-to-cinema-9783631628447","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}