Beschreibung
The work comprises adaptation studies of selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the last century. It focusses on ways of constructing fictional realities as well as on techniques of rendering literary utopias/dystopias into film and allows a deep insight into the history of cinema.
Autorenportrait
Artur Blaim is Professor of English Literature at the University of Gda?sk. He is the author of
(2013) and other books on early English utopias. He edited several volumes on literary studies and utopian cinema.
Ludmi?a Gruszewska-Blaim is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Gda?sk. She published books on 20th-century literature and co-edited, together with Artur Blaim,
(2011) as well as
(2012).
Rezension
«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)
«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)
Inhalt
Contents: Artur Blaim/Ludmi?a Gruszewska-Blaim: On Utopia, Adaptation, and Utopian Film Analysis – Justyna Galant: H.G. Wells’s and Cameron Menzies’s
: A Neurotic Utopia of Progress – Katarzyna Pisarska: The «Speaking Picture»: Frank Capra’s Adaptation of James Hilton’s
Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga: Visualizing the «Shadow World»: Dystopian Reality in the Film Adaptations of
Artur Blaim:
As if it wasn’t a good island»: Failed and Forgotten Utopias in the Cinematic Adaptations of William Golding’s
Andrzej S?awomir
Kowalczyk: The World in (Dis)harmony: Yevgeni Sherstobitov’s
Grzegorz Maziarczyk:
Between the Scylla of Estrangement and the Charybdis of Naturalisation: Two Television Adaptations of
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
Barbara Klonowska: From Ideal Community to the Land of Cockayne: Redefining Utopia in
by Agnieszka Holland – Ludmi?a 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
