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