Mediated Utopias: From Literature to Cinema
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Mediated Fictions
ISBN-10
3631628447
ISBN-13
9783631628447
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 29th, 2014
Print length
244 Pages
Weight
412 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 21.50 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Films, cinemaLiterary studies: from c 1900 -
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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.
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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