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Alison Wilde has a PhD from the Centre for Disability Studies which focused on portrayals of disability in the media. Her dao blog contains discussion of contemporary films and the occasional bit of television. Alison spends much of her leisure time at the local cinema, providing her with plenty of material... good and bad and ugly.

Alison Wilde reviews Tim Burton's recent interpretation of Alice in Wonderland

30 March 2010

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Directed by Tim Burton, screenplay by Linda Woolverton and starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Mia Wasikowska and Anne Hathaway. UK release date: 5 March 2010. For me, film adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are akin to covers of The Carpenters’ music. It just shouldn’t be done because it cannot come close to the beauty of the original. For those who haven’t read these books, Alice’s...

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