Entertainment and Utopia - Richard Dyer
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Film theorist
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Argues that one of the functions o entertainment
is utopianism
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“Entertainent offers the image of “something
better”... the sense that things could be better… Entertainment does not
present models of utopian worlds… rather the utopianism is contained in the
feelings it embodies”
Utopean categories
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Realitiy
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Exhaustion
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Scarcity
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Dreariness
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Manipulation
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Isolation/ Fragmentation
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Utopian Solution
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Energy
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Abundance
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Intensity
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Transparency
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Community
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Dyer argues that these categories reflect ‘temporary
answers to the inadequacies of the society’
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Not in the film
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Flat got blown up
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Will probably end up as the leader of the bloc
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No one else knows about the aliens – wouldn't believe them if they said – could cause conflict
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All the adults think that they’re a waste of space despite the fact that the kids
were shouting out his name
Moses understands that society ends to he'll just keep doing bad stuff
Moses understands that society ends to he'll just keep doing bad stuff
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