Brazilian Science fiction film : a critical history / Alfredo Suppia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suppia, Alfredo, author.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American cinema.

SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Brazil--History.

Motion pictures.

Science fiction films--History and criticism.

Science fiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.

Contents:

Intro

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

The Day When Laughter Stood Free

A Country Under Siege

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

Ecodystopian Films during the Military Rule

Come Hell or High Water: Ecodystopian Films in the Redemocratization

5. Proxy Futures and Other Simulacra: The Brazilian SF Comedy Endures, along with the Adventure Movie and the Musical

No Machine Rivals the King

The Potion Is Ours: The Goofs' SF Film Parodies7

Alien Encounters of the Spicy Kind: SF and the Brazilian Erotic Comedy

Brazilian SF Comedies in the Wake of Redemocratization

6. The Ghost in the Machine: Brazilian SF and the Revival of Spiritist Films

The Medium Is the Message: Brazilian Spiritism and Twentieth-century Literature

Beyond the Film Print: Brazilian Spiritist Cinema

All That Is Solid Melts into Air - and Belongs to the Spirits: When Spiritism Meets SF

7. Southern Short Circuits: Contemporary Brazilian SF Film as Political Film

Redemption is Somewhere in Time: On Traumas and Peripheral Voices

Short-circuiting the Reality Studio: Circuit-Bending, Lo-fi Sci-fi, and the Body in WOBI

The "Neon-Pentecostal" future

Cities under Siege, Again and Again

8. Find your Escape Pod: Afrofuturism, Amazofuturism, and Queer Sci-Fi

Tales of Ice and Fire

Rethinking Our Heroes and the Water Conflict

Amazofuturism: Native Replicants, Alien Invasions, and Reconnecting with Earth

Toward a Brazilian Afrofuturist cinema.

Afrofuturism and Environmentalism

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - or under the Sun: Queer Futurisms

Winds of Change? Eco-Social-Criticism Again and Again

9. A Strange Object South of the Equator: Hypotheses and Investigations about Restraints against SF Literature and Films in Brazil

The Wrangle about Visual Effects

Literature and the Film Industry

Scientific Culture and Public Perception of Science

Imperialism and SF

Brazilian SF Cinema: A Spaceship with Extra Load

10. Do Brazilians Dream of Edenic (or Industrial) Futures?

Final Remarks, or, Hurry Up! We Are Dreaming!

Notes

References

Interviews

Interviews recorded on video

Interviews by e-mail

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798855800494

OCLC:

1468526998