Monday, September 12, 2011

A few sources...

I figure I should probably get down the sources I already have on hand.



Books
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll: Carroll, Lewis, and Donald J. Gray. Alice in Wonderland. New York: W.W. Norton &, 1992. Print.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories – Lewis Carroll: Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2010. Print.
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser -  William Irwin; Richard Brian Davis: Davis, Richard Brian. Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010. Print.
Alice in Zombieland – Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook: Cook, Nickolas, and Lewis Carroll. Alice in Zombieland. Naperville, IL: Source, 2011. Print.
Alice I have Been – Melanie Benjamin: Benjamin, Melanie. Alice I Have Been: a Novel. New York: Bantam Trade Paperbacks, 2011. Print.
Film
Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland: The Masterpiece Edition: Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: The Masterpiece Edition. Walt Disney, 2004. DVD.
Alice in Wonderland: Alice in Wonderland. Dir. Nick Willing. Prod. Dyson Lovell. Perf. Robbie Coltrane, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lloyd, Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Peter Ustinov, George Wendt, Gene Wilder and Tina Majorino as Alice. Hallmark Entertainment, 1990. DVD.
Alice in Wonderland: Alice in Wonderland. Dir. Tim Burton. Perf. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, with the Voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, and Timothy Spall. Disney, 2010. DVD.
Television
Alice: Willing, Nick, dir. "Alice." Alice. SyFy. 2009. Television.
I find it really interesting that Nick Willing first directed the Hallmark Entertainment version of Alice, and then came back to direct SyFy's mini-series, "Alice". 
These are just the books and DVDs that I own, I'll be adding many more sources as I actually begin my research.  

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Alice in Wonderland Capstone

Growing up, I hated Alice in Wonderland. I mean, I really hated it. I thought it was trippy and scary and all about drugs, and I refused to watch it. This probably had something to do with the fact that I watched the live action version when I was very young (it's a creepy, very trippy version).
Needless to say, when I decided to write a comparison paper using multiple versions of Alice in Wonderland (Book, movies, TV series), I surprised myself. I found that I actually loved the story, and that there was so much more to it than I'd realized. I found myself becoming more and more enthralled and obsessed, even, with Alice and her adventures. Then, Alice began to follow me. She would poke her little blonde head through the pages of my books or in various scenes in movies or television shows I was watching. She even managed to creep into some of my music. I realized that somehow, she was everywhere, and that this simple story that Lewis Carroll had written so long ago, was still very prevalent in today's society.
For my capstone, I want to look a little bit more deeply into this. I want to figure out why Alice is so popular - what is it that makes her so interesting? Why are there so many versions of this story? Also, I want to write my own version, but with a darker spin. In my story, Alice isn't napping in a meadow while her sister reads a boring book with no pictures, she's in a mental institution, and her mind is collapsing. And Alice isn't going to wake up at the end of her adventure with the realization that "You're all just a bunch of cards!" No, Alice is stuck in Wonderland, and it's collapsing around her, just like her mind, but she can't get out.
So anyway. That's my capstone. We'll see how this goes.