London in Orwell’s 1984 and Moore and Lloyd’s V for Vendetta and their film adaptations

The thesis analyses the representation of London as a narrative and symbolic space in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta, together with their film adaptations (Radford, 1984; McTeigue, 2005). The aim is to show how the city is not a mere background, but an ideological construction that reflects and produces collective imaginaries. Orwell's grey and timeless London becomes a universal metaphor of totalitarianism, while Moore and Lloyd's recognisable but transfigured city is configured as a stage of repression and revolt. In films, such visions are translated through photography and color: desaturated and oppressive in Radford, spectacular and revolutionary in McTeigue. The analysis thus highlights the city as an active narrative device, capable of redefining the relationship between urban space, power and identity.