Brazilian Science Fiction Film: A Critical History (SUNY series in Latin American Cinema) - Softcover

Suppia, Alfredo

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798855800470

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2025

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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 Ficção Científica no Cinema Brasileiro and coeditor (with Ewa Mazierska) of Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798855800470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 393