Aesthetics of Dystopia
Blindness from Novel to Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4377340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolina Rueda (corresponding author), Carolina Rueda Carolina Rueda |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 12 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Literature Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0196-3570 • E-ISSN: 1945-8134 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7588/worllitetoda.89.3-4.0012 |
| OpenAlex | W2504070486, W4205952048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
José Saramago's 1995 novel Blindness, voted third in WLT's “25 Books That Inspired the World (1989–2014)” readers' poll, remains a timeless depiction of humanity's struggle against savagery. The following essay situates the book's film adaptation in the context of urban Latin American cinema in the new millennium
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blindness · Depiction · Dystopia · Humanity · Literature · Movie theater · Theology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Optometry
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |