Author : Simon Spiegel,Andrea Reiter,Marcy Goldberg
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786835253
Utopia and Reality by Simon Spiegel,Andrea Reiter,Marcy Goldberg Pdf
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.