Published: 2019-07-24

Alice’s Adventures in Tim Burton’s Land: The Film Adaptation of the Stories by Lewis Carroll in the Light of the Campbellian Concept of the Monomyth

Weronika Kostecka , Adam Franke
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.32

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyse Tim Burton’s film Alice in Wonderland (2010) as exploiting Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero’s journey. Burton, as well as the screenwriter, Linda Wolvertoon, treated the original works by Lewis Carroll (1865, 1871) only as a starting point to present their own vision. In the presented considerations, the authors propose the interpretation of the film incarnation of Alice as a mythical heroine who must gain self-awareness and undergo an inter­nal metamorphosis – a transgression from a lost girl into a brave warrior for her own autonomy.

Keywords:

adaptation, Alice in Wonderland, children’s and young adult film, Joseph Campbell, Lewis Carroll, monomyth, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, sequel, Tim Burton, hero’s journey

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Kostecka, W., & Franke, A. (2019). Alice’s Adventures in Tim Burton’s Land: The Film Adaptation of the Stories by Lewis Carroll in the Light of the Campbellian Concept of the Monomyth. Dzieciństwo. Literatura I Kultura, 1(1), 30–46. https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.32

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