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Utopias in nonfiction film

Title: Utopias in nonfiction film / Simon Spiegel.
Author: Spiegel, Simon, 1977-
Publication: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Description

xvi, 324 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 cm.

Summary

This book is the first major study on utopias in nonfiction film. Since the publication of Thomas More's Utopia more than 500 years ago, countless books have been written which describe a better world. But in film, positive utopias seem to be nonexistent. So far, research has focused almost exclusively on dystopias, since positive outlooks seem to run contrary to the medias requirement. Utopias in Nonfiction Film takes a new approach; starting from the insight that literary utopias are first and foremost meant as a reaction to the ills of the present and not as entertaining stories, it looks at documentary and propaganda films, an area which so far has been completely ignored by research. Combining insights from documentary research and utopian studies, a vast and very diverse corpus of films is analysed. Among them are Zionist propaganda films, cinematic city utopias, socialist films of the future as well as web videos produced by the Islamist terrorist group ISIS.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in utopianism

Uniform Title

Bilder einer besseren Welt. English
Palgrave studies in utopianism.

Alternative Title

Bilder einer besseren Welt.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-307), filmography (pages 309-312) and index.

Language (note)

Translated from German.

Call Number

MFL 22-1037

ISBN

9783030798222
3030798224

OCLC

1264401222

Author

Spiegel, Simon, 1977- author.

Title

Utopias in nonfiction film / Simon Spiegel.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in utopianism

Palgrave studies in utopianism.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-307), filmography (pages 309-312) and index.

Language

Translated from German.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030798239

Research Call Number

MFL 22-1037

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