Brazilian Science Fiction Film

<p><b>The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.</b></p><p>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.</p>