Utopian Spaces in Fantasy Worlds in Literature and Film: East and West

A survey of Russian, Czech, Polish, and Austrian 19th- and 20th-century works of fiction that depict altered states of reality. Readings (in English translation) range from folk tales and tales of the supernatural, 19th-century utopias and works by such major writers as Turgenev and Dostoevsky, to accomplished novels of the 20th-century. Showings of contemporary fantasy and science fiction movies from the U.S., Russia, England, France, and Czechoslovakia.