Brazilian Science Fiction Film
Alfredo Suppia
State University of New York Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Theater, Ballett
Beschreibung
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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science fiction films, Brazil, Motion pictures, Comedy and Satire, Early 1960s, Military Hardliners, Spiritist Films, Political Films, Queer Sci-Fi