Utopia and Reality - Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University Of Wales Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Dimensions in Science Fiction
Release date:	February 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Simon Spiegel • Andrea Reiter • Marcy Goldberg
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-78683-524-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	1-78683-524-X
Barcode:	9781786835246

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