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This 10 page paper considers the role of the entertainment, in particular film and hw this may be seen as offering audiences the possibility of Utopia. The paper includes the ideas of Ernst Bloch and Fredric Jameson and uses many films to illustrate the points raised. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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dreamt of and theorist for millennia. The first written work is that of Plato with his philosophising in the Republic, a society which even he appears to believe will not
an cannot exist. Even in that work there is the image of duality, a society that appears perfect but is maintained as a result of lies and force (Carey, 2000).
The attainment of the ideal is also at the cost of the ideals of others, the destruction of alternate dreams, therefore, at best Utopia is a perspective and subjective the
mind of the thinker, yet man has not stopped seeking it. In todays society with increased media and availability of escapism through the media and entertainment facilities there are possibilities
of a Utopia hinted and dangled in front of the audience. Utopia is an place where the people are perfect, Carey (2000), argues that this is created by the
birthing of a perfect population that are then maintained in a perfect state with the provision of education and then aging and death are managed. However, these are not
possible to manage, and in all of the Utopian works, form Plato to Thomas More these impossibilities are reduced to simplified aspects that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is
a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics that are being communicated. The same may be seen in modern media, where there are
insoluble problems the entertainment industry chooses to ignore them by suspending disbelief. Thus is also a method of overcoming insoluble difficulties without ever solving the difficulties. Art and literature
as well as in more recent times the different forms of entertainment may be seen as track or routes that lead to an horizon where Utopia appears to be. In
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