Brazilian Science Fiction Film: A Critical History - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alredo SuppiaSeries:Suny Latin American CinemaTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Chronological Period/21st Century, Cultural Region/Latin AmericaPublish date:2024-12-01Pages:393
Languages:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855800487UPC:9798855800487Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Film, Latin America, ModernBook Topic:History & Criticism, South America, 21st CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.64Product ID:SC84BP6YX3
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855800487UPC:9798855800487Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Film, Latin America, ModernBook Topic:History & Criticism, South America, 21st CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.64Product ID:SC84BP6YX3
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 Fic??o Cient?fica no Cinema Brasileiro and coeditor (with Ewa Mazierska) of Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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