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- English
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About this book
The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- 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
- Back Cover