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OverviewA welcome consideration of the utopian dimension of cinema, which goes beyond the usual description of fiction films that depict alternative societies (good and bad) to explore the utopian possibilities of documentary film.’ -Emeritus Professor Peter Fitting, University of Toronto Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simon Spiegel , Andrea Reiter , Marcy GoldbergPublisher: University of Wales Press Imprint: University of Wales Press ISBN: 9781786835246ISBN 10: 178683524 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 15 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgments Andrea Reiter and Simon Spiegel Introduction: Utopian Realities Lyman Tower Sargent and Simon Spiegel Reality and Utopia: A Conversation with Lyman Tower Sargent Part 1: Tracing Utopia Susanna Layh Utopia Revisited: Reading Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera in the Light of the Utopian Tradition Peter Seyferth Neither Fact Nor Fiction: Made in Secret as a Utopian Education in Desire Simon Spiegel The Utopia of the Caliphate: Reading ISIS Propaganda Videos as Utopian Texts Part 2: Alternative Documentary Politics Matthew Holtmeier Living and Dying with Water: Indigenous Histories and Critical Bioregionalism in The Pearl Button Andrea Reiter Prospectivity in Political Documentaries Chelsea Wessels Practicing Hope: Ecofeminism, Documentary and Community Engagement Part 3: New Forms of Documentary Activism Daniel Schwartz, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner Trans-Utopia: Documenting Real and Imagined Cities Dale Hudson Post-Utopian Interventions by Students: Interactive Documentary and Micro-Revolutions Jane M. Gaines Documentary Dreams of Activism and the Arab Spring List of IllustrationsReviews""A welcome consideration of the utopian dimension of cinema, which goes beyond the usual description of fiction films that depict alternative societies (good and bad) to explore the utopian possibilities of documentary film.""--Peter Fitting, University of Toronto """A welcome consideration of the utopian dimension of cinema, which goes beyond the usual description of fiction films that depict alternative societies (good and bad) to explore the utopian possibilities of documentary film.""--Peter Fitting, University of Toronto" A welcome consideration of the utopian dimension of cinema, which goes beyond the usual description of fiction films that depict alternative societies (good and bad) to explore the utopian possibilities of documentary film. --Peter Fitting, University of Toronto Author InformationUndergraduate students. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |