Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction or Unidentified Filmic Objects: Understanding Science Fiction in Brazil 1
6. 1. Laughing at the Future: On the Origins of Brazilian SF Cinema in Comedy and Satire 13
7. 2. Subliminal Waves: Brazilian SF Cinema in the Early 1960s 27
8. 3. Brazil, Love it or Leave it — for the Stars: SF Film during the Era of the Military Hardliners (1969–1973) 45
9. 4. Coming Up for Air: The Brazilian Ecodystopian Film 63
10. 5. Proxy Futures and Other Simulacra: The Brazilian SF Comedy Endures, along with the Adventure Movie and the Musical 85
11. 6. The Ghost in the Machine: Brazilian SF and the Revival of Spiritist Films 115
12. 7. Southern Short Circuits: Contemporary Brazilian SF Film as Political Film 145
13. 8. Find your Escape Pod: Afrofuturism, Amazofuturism, and Queer Sci-Fi 187
14. 9. A Strange Object South of the Equator: Hypotheses and Investigations about Restraints against SF Literature and Films in Brazil 241
15. 10. Do Brazilians Dream of Edenic (or Industrial) Futures? 273
16. Final Remarks, or, Hurry Up! We Are Dreaming! 285
17. Notes 297
18. References 327
19. Interviews 347
20. Index 349