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.
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