Alice in the Land of Movies
Alice in the Land of Movies

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on Tim Burton’s movie adaptation of the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The distinction between the magical and the fantastic, and the miraculous and the wonderful that is resolved within the movie Alice in Wonderland (2010), carried within the infant nature present in Tim Burton’s grown-up Alice, redefines the standpoints of the fantastic, making child’s fantasy a literary-screen reality. In both cases, the frames of the fantastic, starting from a hint of the fictional and the wonderful, make a crossover towards the miraculous. According to Roger Caillois (1972), the fantastic expresses a scandal, a break, a strange, almost unbearable, penetration into the real world, and with its penetrations of the other side into the real world, it transforms itself into a poetics of the miraculous.

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