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Title Imperfect worlds and dystopian narratives in contemporary cinema / edited by Arthur Blaim and Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim
Published Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, [2011]
©2011

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Description 190 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Contents note continued: 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
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 --
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Dystopian films -- History and criticism.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Author Blaim, Artur.
Gruszewska Blaim, Ludmiła.
LC no. 2011500746
ISBN 3631614896
9783631614891