Red Alert
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Red Alert

Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema

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Red Alert

Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema

About this book

In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and film share important connections concerning imaginings of the future. Contributors look at themes across a wide variety of films, including many international co-productions to explore individualism versus collectivism, technological obstacles to travel through time and space, the accumulation of capital and colonization, struggles of oppressed groups, the dangers of false ideologies, and the extension of the concept of labor due to technological advances. Red Alert considers a wide swath of contemporary international films, from the rarely studied to mainstream science fiction blockbusters like The Matrix. Contributors explore early Czechoslovak science fiction, the Polish-Estonian co-productions of director Marek Piestrak, and science fiction elements in 1970s American blaxploitation films. The collection includes analyses of recent films like Transfer (Damir Lukacevic), Avalon (Mamoru Oshii), Gamer (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor), and District 9 and Elysium (Neill Blomkamp), along with more obscure films like Alex Rivera's materialist science fiction works and the Latin American zombie films of Pablo ParƩs, HernƔn SƔez, and Alejandro BruguƩs. Contributors show that the ambivalence and inner contradictions highlighted by the films illustrate both the richness of Marx's legacy and the heterogeneity and complexity of the science fiction genre.This collection challenges the perception that science fiction cinema is a Western or specifically American genre, showing that a broader, transnational approach is necessary to fully understand its scope. Scholars and students of film, science fiction, and Marxist culture will enjoy Red Alert.

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Information

Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780814340110
eBook ISBN
9780814340127
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Film & Video
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Marxism and Science Fiction Cinema
  6. 1. First Contact or Primal Scene: Communism Meets Real Socialism Meets Capitalism in Early Czechoslovak Science Fiction Cinema
  7. 2. Soviet and Post-Soviet Images of Capitalism: Ideological Fissures in Marek Piestrakā€™s Polish-Estonian Coproductions
  8. 3. Paying Freedom Dues: Marxism, Black Radicalism, and Blaxploitation Science Fiction
  9. 4. The Biopolitics of Globalization in Damir Lukacevicā€™s Transfer
  10. 5. Capitalism and Wasted Lives in District 9 and Elysium
  11. 6. Marxism vs. Postmodernism: The Case of The Matrix
  12. 7. Representation of ā€œGaming Capitalismā€ in Avalon and Gamer
  13. 8. Remote Exploitations: Alex Riveraā€™s Materialist SF Cinema in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism
  14. 9. Rags and Revolution: Visions of the Lumpenproletariat in Latin American Zombie Films
  15. Contributors
  16. Index