The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20 th and 21 st centuries: Things to Come , Lost Horizon , Nineteen Eighty-Four , Lord of the Flies , The Andromeda Nebula , Brave New World , Total Recall , The Secret Garden , Harrison Bergeron and Never Let Me Go . It focuses not only on the ways of constructing fictional realities and techniques of rendering literary utopias/dystopias into film, but also on their cultural and political determinants.