| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 美勞教育研究所 === 96 === This thesis explores two movies directed by Dzongsar Khyetse Rinpoche – The Cup, and Travellers & Magicians, unfolding how they present and develop the theme of utopia. For years, when adopting the idea of ‘utopia’ as an entering point to generate a discourse on movies, critics have mostly selected, as examples, sci-fi movies whose backgrounds are ‘cyborg’ and the geographic scene changes resulting from a highly developed technologism or capitalism, without considering the possibility of tapping into other factors. This thesis, in order to explore the presentation and extension of the utopian image in the two above-mentioned movies, is based on Fredric Jameson’s neutralized utopian discourse and Russell Jacoby’s revisit to the origin of the utopian thought, and is done with the help of the followings: cultural geography, the object structure, film semiotics, and aesthetic reading of film language and form. The researcher concludes by pointing out that while the traditional visually oriented ‘blue print utopia’ has resulted in the failure of the utopian thought, its antithesis—the iconoclastic utopia— though firstly looked on as a way out, still has drawbacks. The two movies explored in this thesis, by their forms, narrative structures, and the selection of film as its medium, has placed a broader meaning of utopia between the two ends of the aforementioned blue print utopia and iconoclastic utopia, showing a possibility which can lead us to ‘another’ better world.
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