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Utopia and reality : documentary, activism and imagined worlds / edited by Simon Spiegel, Andrea Reiter and Marcy Goldberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New dimensions in science fiction.
- New dimensions in science fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Since publication of Thomas More's Utopia more than five hundred years ago, there has been a steady stream of literary works that depict a better world; positive utopias in film, however, have been scarce. There is a consensus that utopias in the Morean tradition are not suited to fiction film, and research has accordingly focused on dystopias. Starting from the insight that utopias are always a critical reaction to the deficits of the present, Utopia and Reality takes a different approach by looking into the under-researched area of propaganda and documentary films for depictions of better worlds. This volume brings together researchers from two fields that have so far seen little exchange - documentary studies and utopian scholarship - and covers a wide range of films from Soviet avant-garde to propaganda videos for the terror organisation ISIS, from political-activist to ecofeminist and interactive documentaries.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781786835260
- 1786835266
- OCLC:
- 1144496969
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