Cinema of the Not-Yet: The Utopian Promise of Film as Heterotopia

Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s writings on utopia, Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, and the ‘affective turn’ in social theory, I argue that cinema is by its nature heterotopic: it creates worlds that are other than the ‘real world’ but that relate to that world in multiple and contradictory ways....

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Main Author: Ivakhiv, Adrian J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2011
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2011, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-209
Further subjects:B Ecocriticism
B heterotopia
B Utopia
B film
B Affect
B Cinema
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