Brazilian Science Fiction Film
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0048-7 (ISBN)
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This book offers a pioneering critical history of Brazilian science fiction (SF) cinema, from its first appearances in the mid-twentieth century to the present. Though frequently overlooked by scholars, SF cinema from the Global South has reinvigorated the genre in recent decades. In this comprehensive study—the first of its kind in either English or Portuguese—Alfredo Suppia draws out the unique features and universal resonance of SF film in Brazil, a country that has fittingly been called "the land of the future." In Suppia's analysis, Brazilian SF stems from and responds to a long history of inequality in which everyday reality has often resembled a movie-like dystopia. Analyzing both short and feature films in the context of social, political, and economic transformations, Suppia rethinks SF film in general from a southern perspective.
Alfredo Suppia is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas-SP, Brazil. He is the author of Atmosfera Rarefeita: A Ficção Científica no Cinema Brasileiro and coeditor (with Ewa Mazierska) of Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction or Unidentified Filmic Objects: Understanding Science Fiction in Brazil
1. Laughing at the Future: On the Origins of Brazilian SF Cinema in Comedy and Satire
2. Subliminal Waves: Brazilian SF Cinema in the Early 1960s
3. Brazil, Love it or Leave it — for the Stars: SF Film during the Era of the Military Hardliners (1969–1973)
4. Coming Up for Air: The Brazilian Ecodystopian Film
5. Proxy Futures and Other Simulacra: The Brazilian SF Comedy Endures, along with the Adventure Movie and the Musical
6. The Ghost in the Machine: Brazilian SF and the Revival of Spiritist Films
7. Southern Short Circuits: Contemporary Brazilian SF Film as Political Film
8. Find your Escape Pod: Afrofuturism, Amazofuturism, and Queer Sci-Fi
9. A Strange Object South of the Equator: Hypotheses and Investigations about Restraints against SF Literature and Films in Brazil
10. Do Brazilians Dream of Edenic (or Industrial) Futures?
Final Remarks, or, Hurry Up! We Are Dreaming!
Notes
References
Interviews
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Latin American Cinema |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 20 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-8558-0048-7 / 9798855800487 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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