Utopia and Reality - Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds

Scholarship on utopias in film has so far focused exclusively on dystopias - but utopias are about criticizing the present rather than telling a gripping story, and Utopia and Reality looks into propaganda and documentary films for depictions of better worlds.

Summary

Scholarship on utopias in film has so far focused exclusively on dystopias – but utopias are about criticizing the present rather than telling a gripping story, and Utopia and Reality looks into propaganda and documentary films for depictions of better worlds.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Reiter Spiegel
• Assisted by: Marcy Goldberg (Editor), Andrea Reiter (Editor), Reiter Andrea (Editor), Simon Spiegel (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781786835246
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-524-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: New Dimensions in Science Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy > Science fiction; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Utopia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Documentary, Reality, Documentary films, Activism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism, imagined, Worlds