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An impressive book people will read for all kinds of reasons, academic and otherwise, not least of which is its bold proposal that the future is unthinkable without cinema. -- Richard Dienst, author of Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television ... Pavsek renews our faith in the utopian possibilities of truly political art. -- Patrick Reagan, Yale University Screening the Past 3/10/14

An impressive book people will read for all kinds of reasons, academic and otherwise, not least of which is its bold proposal that the future is unthinkable without cinema. -- Richard Dienst, author of <i>Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television</i> ... Pavsek renews our faith in the utopian possibilities of truly political art. -- Patrick Reagan, Yale University * Screening the Past *

The Utopia of Film is an impressive book, drawing together an intriguing set of materials to construct a sustained argument about both the failures of cinema and its Utopian afterlives. It is a book that people will read for all kinds of reasons, academic and otherwise, not least of which is its bold proposal that the future is unthinkable without cinema. -- Richard Dienst, author of The Bonds of Debt and Still Life in Real Time

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Christopher Pavsek is associate professor of film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His films include The One and All (2002) and To Those Born After (2005), and he is the translator of Alexander Kluge's Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome.

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