Utopia and Reality (eBook, ePUB)

Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds
Redaktion: Spiegel, Simon; Goldberg, Marcy; Reiter, Andrea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786835260
• Artikelnr.: 58788941