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Utopia
Utopia: an imagined ideal society; also the 1516 Latin book by Thomas More that coined the word from Greek ou-topos, "no place," punning on "good place," founding a literary genre.
Utopia (2020 TV series)
Utopia (2020) is an American Prime Video conspiracy thriller by Gillian Flynn, adapting Dennis Kelly's British Channel 4 series; eight episodes starring John Cusack, Rainn Wilson, and Sasha Lane, premiered September 25, 2020 and canceled November 27, 2020 after one season.
Utopia (Australian TV series)
Utopia (Australian TV series) is a satire about Australian government bureaucracy. Created by Working Dog, it premiered in 2014 and is set in the fictional Nation Building Authority.
Utopia (Björk album)
Utopia is Björk's ninth studio album, released November 24, 2017 on One Little Indian, produced with Arca and Rabit. A flute-centered companion to Vulnicura, it runs 71 minutes, scored 82 on Metacritic, and spawned the Cornucopia tour.
Utopia (British TV series)
Utopia is a British conspiracy thriller series by Dennis Kelly, broadcast on Channel 4 from 2013 to 2014, following comic-book fans hunted by a shadowy organization.
Utopia (Travis Scott album)
UTOPIA is Travis Scott's fourth studio album, released July 28, 2023 on Cactus Jack/Epic; 19 tracks with Beyoncé, Drake, and The Weeknd; debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 496,000 units and earned a 2024 Best Rap Album Grammy nomination.
Utopia Falls
Utopia Falls is a 2020 Canadian teen sci-fi hip-hop drama series created by R.T. Thorne, streaming on Hulu and CBC Gem. Set in the future colony New Babyl, ten episodes follow Exemplar competitors who discover a forbidden archive of hip-hop history; canceled after one season.
Utopia Parkway
Utopia Parkway is the second studio album by Fountains of Wayne (Atlantic, April 6, 1999), a 14-track suburban-themed power pop record by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger; a critical hit that never cracked Billboard's Top 100 and got the band dropped.
Utopian and dystopian fiction
Utopian and dystopian fiction: related speculative traditions imagining ideal or magnified-worse societies, founded by Thomas More's Utopia (1516), which coined "utopia"; dystopia emerged in the mid-late 1800s, spanning Bellamy, Orwell, Atwood, and YA hits like The Hunger Games.
Utopian literature in German
Utopian literature in German, or deutsche Utopieliteratur, is German-language writing about ideal or deliberately bad societies, beginning with More's Utopia in translation in 1524 and spanning utopias and dystopias to today.
Utopian scholastic
Utopian scholastic, also called Kid Frasurbane, is a design aesthetic of late-1980s to early-2000s edutainment media: DK Eyewitness books, Microsoft Encarta, documentaries, and museums, defined by photo cut-outs on white, serif type, and pre-9/11 optimism; coined in 2017 by CARI-affiliated archivists.
Utpal Dutt
Utpal Dutt (উৎপল দত্ত, 1929–1993), Indian actor, director, and playwright; founder of the Little Theatre Group (1949) and maker of Marxist political theatre in Bengal, also known for Bengali and Hindi film roles.
Utpalamala
Utpalamala (ఉత్పలమాల), a name traditionally glossed as "a wreath of purple lilies," is a fixed vritta meter of Telugu prosody and one of its most common verse forms.
Utpreksha
Utpreksha (उत्प्रेक्षा, utprekṣā) is a figure of speech in Sanskrit and Hindi poetics, called poetic fancy, where the poet supposes rather than states that a subject resembles something else.
Utrecht Caravaggisti
The Utrecht Caravaggisti were early seventeenth-century Dutch painters, mostly from Utrecht, who absorbed Caravaggio's realistic, dramatically lit style in Rome and influenced Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer.
Utsav (उत्सव)
Utsav (उत्सव) is a 1984 Hindi period drama directed by Girish Karnad, produced by Shashi Kapoor's Film-Valas, adapted from Sudraka's Sanskrit play Mrichchakatika, starring Rekha and Shekhar Suman; a big-budget erotic romance that flopped commercially but gained a cult following.
Utsavam (2024 film)
Utsavam (ఉత్సవం), 2024 Telugu romantic drama directed by Arjun Sai, starring Dilip Prakash and Regina Cassandra as heirs of Surabhi theatre families reviving traditional stage plays; released 13 September 2024, Hornbill Pictures, music Anup Rubens.
Utsu-P
Utsu-P (鬱P) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer who has combined heavy metal and loud rock with synthetic vocals since 2008, writing songs for Hatsune Miku and GUMI.
Uttam Kumar (উত্তম কুমার)
Uttam Kumar (উত্তম কুমার), born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay (1926–1980), the Mahanayak of Bengali cinema; star of over 200 films, first National Film Award Best Actor winner (1967), Suchitra Sen's screen partner, and subject of Satyajit Ray's Nayak.
Uttama Villain (உத்தம வில்லன்)
Uttama Villain (உத்தம வில்லன்), 2015 Tamil meta comedy-drama directed by Ramesh Aravind, written by and starring Kamal Haasan as dying superstar Manoranjan; K. Balachander's final film, delayed release, Ghibran music.
Uttar Da Puttar
Uttar Da Puttar (उत्तर दा पुत्तर) is a 2026 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Ravinder Siwach, starring Annu Kapoor as a Delhi physics teacher obsessed with Vastu.
Uttaran
Uttaran is an Indian television serial that aired on Colors TV from 2008 to 2015, following the friendship of Ichcha, a maid's daughter, and the rich Tapasya.
Uttararamacharita
Uttararamacarita (उत्तररामचरितम्, "The Later Deeds of Rama") is a Sanskrit drama in seven acts by Bhavabhuti, famed for its pathos and its happy reunion of Rama and Sita.
UTV Motion Pictures
UTV Motion Pictures (Disney UTV), Mumbai film studio founded 1996 by Ronnie and Zarina Screwvala as UTV Software's film arm; acquired by Disney for $450 million in 2012, shut down 2017; known for Rang De Basanti, PK.
Uunchai
Uunchai (ऊँचाई, "Height") is a 2022 Hindi adventure drama directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya, about three retired friends trekking to Everest Base Camp in memory of a friend.
Uvaysi
Uvaysi, pen name of Jahon otin, was a classical Uzbek poetess (around 1780 to 1845) who served at the Kokand court and taught poetry to the queen Nodira.
Üvercinka
Üvercinka is the first poetry book of Turkish poet Cemal Süreya, published in 1958 and regarded as a founding work of the İkinci Yeni movement.
UVERworld
UVERworld (ウーバーワールド) is a six-member Japanese rock band from Shiga Prefecture, formed around childhood friends TAKUYA∞ and bassist 信人, which debuted in 2005 and has placed 31 singles and 9 albums high on the Oricon charts.
Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll, German director born 1965 in Wermelskirchen, known for poorly received video game adaptations (House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Postal), German tax-shelter financing, boxing his critics, and the 2026 film Citizen Vigilante.
Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) was a German novelist, translator, and editor who made the division of Germany his central subject; his four-volume Jahrestage (1970–1983) is a major twentieth-century German novel.