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Author:   Simon Spiegel ,  Andrea Reiter ,  Marcy Goldberg
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786835246

ISBN 10:   178683524
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   15 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table 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 Illustrations

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""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

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