Mediated Utopias: From Literature to Cinema (Mediated Fictions Book 4)

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. Cover 1 Contents 7 On Utopia, Adaptation, and Utopian Film Analysis (Artur Blaim And Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim) 9 1 9 2 14 3 18 Works Cited 26 H.G. Wells’s and Cameron Menzies’ Things To Come: A Neurotic Utopia of Progress (Justyna Galant) 29 Works Cited 42 The “Speaking Picture”: Frank Capra’s Adaptation of James Hilton’s Lost Horizon (Katarzyna Pisarska) 43 1 47 2 55 3 58 4 62 5 64 6 70 Works Cited 71 Visualizing the "Shadow World": Dystopian Reality in the Film Adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four (Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga) 73 1984 (1956) 82 1984 (1984) 87 Works Cited 94 "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) 97 Adaptations 105 Works Cited 109 The World in (Dis)harmony: Yevgeni Sherstobitov’s The Andromeda Nebula (Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk) 111 Works Cited 130 Between the Scylla of Estrangement and the Charybdis of Naturalisation: Two Television Adaptations of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Grzegorz Maziarczyk) 133 Works Cited 154 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) 157 Works Cited 168 From Ideal Community to the Land of Cockayne: Redefining Utopia in The Secret Garden by Agnieszka Holland (Barbara Klonowska) 171 Utopian space 173 Utopia of desire 179 Vanishing utopia? 185 Works Cited 187 Dystopian Topography of Noise: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Bruce Pittman, and Chandler Tuttle (Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim) 189 "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut (1961) 191 Harrison Bergeron, dir. Bruce Pittman (1995) 198 2081, dir. Chandler Tuttle (2009) 204 Works Cited 212 Parts Unknown: Strategies of Disappropriation in Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go (Marta Komsta) 215 1 215 2 224 Part I: Hailsham, 1978 224 Part II: The Cottages, 1985 229 Part III: Completion, 1994 233 3 238 Works Cited 240 Index 243 On Utopia, Adaptation, And Utopian Film Analysis / Artur Blaim And Ludmila Gruszewska-blaim -- H.g. Wells's And Cameron Menzies' Things To Come: A Neurotic Utopia Of Progress / Justyna Galant -- The Speaking Picture: Frank Capra's Adaptation Of James Hilton's Lost Horizon / Katarzyna Pisarska -- Visualizing The Shadow World: Dystopian Reality In The Film Adaptations Of Nineteen Eighty-four / Urszula Terentowicz-fotyga -- 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 -- The World In (dis)harmony: Yevgeni Sherstobitov's The Andromeda Nebula / Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk -- Between The Scylla Of Estrangement And The Charybdis Of Naturalisation: Two Television Adaptations Of Brave New World By Aldous Huxley / Grzegorz Maziarczyk -- 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 -- From Ideal Community To The Land Of Cockayne: Redefining Utopia In The Secret Garden By Agnieszka Holland / Barbara Klonowska -- Dystopian Topography Of Noise: Harrison Bergeron By Kurt Vonnegut, Bruce Pittman, And Chandler Tuttle / Ludmila Gruszewska-blaim -- Parts Unknown: Strategies Of Disappropriation In Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go / Marta Komsta. Artur Blaim ; Ludmila Gruszewska-blaim (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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. The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20 th and 21 st 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. 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.