Brazilian Science Fiction Film

Brazilian Science Fiction Film

A Critical History

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State University of New York Press

12/2024

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Notes
References
Interviews
Index