Research Catalog

Title

Imperfect worlds and dystopian narratives in contemporary cinema / edited by Artur Blaim and Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim.

Publication

Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blaim, Artur
• Gruszewska Blaim, Ludmiła
• Gruszewska Blaim, Ludmiła.

Description

190 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Dystopian films > History and criticism
• Science fiction films > History and criticism
• Motion pictures > Plots, themes, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE DYSTOPIA AND CONVENTIONS -- Failed Carnival: The Metonymic Dystopias in Werner Herzog's Even Dwarfs Started Small / Artur Blaim -- Defamiliarization of Dystopian Narratives: Esteban Sapir's The Aerial / Barbara Klonowska -- Of Dystopia, Desire and Death: Goto, the Island of Flies / Zofia Kolbuszewska -- Huxley/Orwell/Bradbury Reloaded; or, The Campy Art of Bricolage / Grzegorz Maziarczyk -- pt. TWO DYSTOPIA AND CULTURE -- Vague Boundaries and Re-configured Senses: Dystopia(s) in the making in David Cronenberg's Videodrome / Justyna Galant -- Against the Culture of Fear: Terror and Romance in V for Vendetta / Ludmila Gruszewska Blaim -- Juliusz Machulski's Sexmission, or Paradise Regained / Marta Komsta -- pt. THREE DYSTOPIA AND REALITY -- Between Dystopia and Eutopia: Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker / Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk -- Out of the Drawer and Back Again: Utopian Satire in Juliusz Machulski's Kingsajz / Katarzyna Pisarska -- East European Golgotha: Constructing Postmodern Dystopia in Piotr Szulkin's Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes / Patrycja Wawrzyszak -- On the Impossibility of Dystopia? Children of Men or the Apocalypse Now / Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga.

ISBN

9783631614891 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 748330732
• SCSB-12379824

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library