Utopia and Reality: Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds

Utopia and Reality: Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds
Simon Spiegel, Andrea Reiter, Marcy Goldberg
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 304pg
15 Mar 2020 UK
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9781786835246
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Since publication of Thomas More`s Utopia more than 500 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 for fiction film and, accordingly, research has 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, and from political-activist to ecofeminist and interactive documentaries.
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ISBN-13: 9781786835246
Published: 15 Mar 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 304

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