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"Thinking across the boundaries of utopian studies, film studies, and the sociology of globalisation, this book argues that 21st-century cinema illustrates the rebirth of utopia as an open method grounded in cosmopolitan worldviews and aspirations. Rather than negating hope, promoting a fixed agenda, or depicting an exemplary status quo, contemporary movies such as Children of Men, The East, and The Hunger Games series articulate a cosmopolitan utopianism that vindicates egalitarian and sustainable futures. Re-inscribing the utopian within the political, many 21st-century films challenge existing geopolitical borders and the social barriers imposed by class, gender, race, sexuality, and birthplace. Ecocritical film spaces, caring protagonists, non-mainstream survivors, ecofeminist leaders, and cooperative networks prompt spectators to develop integrating dialogical imaginaries that contest patriarchal traditions, ecocidal progress, and neoliberal definitions of the global. Contemporary with climate change, economic recession, and global social movements, the films explored in this book re-stage utopia as a cosmopolitan method of critical resistance and transformative action-a process in the making that evokes a fairer world to be as much as it speaks of a world that is: one in which global interdependence has shaped not only risks, hostilities, and inequalities, but also inclusive horizons, holistic thinking, intersectional activism, and nurturing affects for others that have become part of us"--
Cosmopolitanism in motion pictures --- Utopias in motion pictures --- Motion pictures
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De prime abord, l’utopie et le quotidien s’opposent en tous points. L’utopie ne tend-elle pas à interrompre la routine et les mécanismes les mieux installés en vue de « changer la vie » ? Et le quotidien ne reconduit-il pas l’apparente nouveauté dans ce qui a toujours été et l’altérité dans le toujours identique ? En poursuivant à leur façon les réflexions récentes de Pierre Macherey, les auteurs des différentes contributions qui composent le présent ouvrage ont fait un pari inverse à celui de la commode opposition. Au lieu de considérer l’utopie et le quotidien comme des termes occupant des espaces parallèles que rien ne permettrait de croiser, l’attention est ici portée aux points où l’extra- et l’infra-ordinaire se rencontrent, voire s’enchevêtrent. Car l’utopie, contrairement à l’atopie, n’est pas une fuite imaginaire hors du monde et le quotidien, à la différence de l’ordinaire, est taraudé de l’intérieur par une « inquiétante étrangeté » par laquelle il rejoint l’utopie. Cette « immanence de l’au-delà », selon l’expression de Macherey, est explorée sous les regards combinés de la phénoménologie, de la critique sociale, de la théorie littéraire et cinématographique.
Utopias --- Utopias in literature --- Utopias in motion pictures --- Literature --- Philosophy --- Macherey, Pierre --- Criticism and interpretation --- quotidienneté --- philosophie sociale --- phénoménologie --- utopie
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The present collection of essays brings into dialogue Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) by comparing their cultural and intellectual legacy. Pasolini and Fassbinder are amongst the last radical filmmakers to have emerged in Europe. Born in Italy and Germany, they inherited a traumatic social and political past which is reflected in their works through a number of similarly articulated and unresolved tensions: high and popular cultures, theatre, literatur...
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Film --- Brazil --- Motion pictures --- Brazil in motion pictures --- Utopias in motion pictures. --- Cinéma --- Brésil au cinéma --- Utopies au cinéma
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'Comprehensive and thorough, Utopias in Nonfiction Film takes a new direction in its surprise application to documentary that has the potential to shake up the field.' - Jane Gaines, Columbia University, USA 'Spiegel has introduced a new sub-genre to utopian studies, the documentary film. The book covers an impressive range of films, making the book one of the few truly international and comparative works in utopian studies.' - Lyman Tower Sargent, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA 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 media's 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.
Theory of knowledge --- Film --- History of civilization --- History --- intellectuele ontwikkeling --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Utopias in motion pictures. --- Documentary films --- History and criticism.
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How might we grasp the scope and variety of contemporary surveillance, its possibilities and threats? How have scholars addressed the topic? How has surveillance been understood in the past, and what can this awareness tell scholars and the public about the shape of things to come? Monitoring the Future addresses these questions by critically considering the utopian and dystopian literature and film that for decades has supplied provocative and illuminating depictions of surveillance, and responses to it. It goes beyond Orwell and Snowden to speculate on the shape of surveillance to come. Key Features:The first sustained account of the representation of surveillance in eutopian and dystopian literature and film * Charts surveillance's historical development and creative responses to that development * Provides a detailed critical account of the ways that surveillance studies has utilised utopias to formulate its ideas * Offers new readings of literary texts and films from More's Utopia through George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to Margaret Atwood' Oryx and Crake; and films from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Neil Blomkamp's Elysium and beyond.
Utopias in literature --- Utopias in motion pictures --- Electronic surveillance in literature --- Electronic surveillance in motion pictures --- Electronic surveillance. --- Dystopias in literature. --- Dystopian films. --- Utopias in literature. --- Utopias in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Utopian literature --- Dystopia films --- Electronics in surveillance --- SIGINT (Electronic surveillance) --- Signals intelligence --- Surveillance, Electronic --- Remote sensing --- Electronic surveillance in literature. --- Electronic surveillance in motion pictures.
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The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies, The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World, Total Recall, The Secret Garden, Harrison Bergeron and Never Let Me Go. It focuses not only on the ways of constructing fictional realities and techniques of rendering literary utopias/dystopias into film, but also on their cultural and political determinants.
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