Author: M. Elizabeth Ginway
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Science fiction, because of its links to science and technology, is the consummate literary vehicle for examining the perception and cultural impact of the modernization process in Brazil. Because of the centrality of the role played by the military dictatorship (1964-85) in imposing industrialization and economic development policies on Brazil, this book examines the genre in the periods before, during, and after the dictatorship, encompassing the years 1960-2000. The analysis shows that a reading of Brazilian science fiction based on its use of paradigms of Anglo-American science fiction and myths of Brazilian nationhood provides a unique look into Brazil's modern metamorphosis as it finds itself on the periphery of the globalized world.
Author: Alfredo Suppia
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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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.
Author: Sonja Fritzsche
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781380384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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The first comprehensive companion to science fiction film as a global, rather than solely Anglo-American, concern.
Author: E. King
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137338768
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual.
Author: M. Ginway
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137312777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most important cultural and literary debates of recent year.
Author: James R. Chatham
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Category : Catalan philology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author: A. Sawyer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230300391
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.
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Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819570834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.
