Utopia and Reality

Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds

Edited by Simon Spiegel, Andrea Reiter, and Marcy Goldberg

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Utopia and Reality

Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds

Edited by Simon Spiegel, Andrea Reiter, and Marcy Goldberg

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.’
-Emeritus Professor Peter Fitting, University of Toronto

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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

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

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