Sonja Fritzsche (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781380383
- eISBN:
- 9781781381557
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380383.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into science fiction far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. The collection contains fourteen chapters ...
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The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into science fiction far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. The collection contains fourteen chapters written by specialists from around the world. Contributors take either a national or transnational approach, and stretch the geographic and conceptual boundaries of science fiction cinema. Recurrent themes include genre discussions, engagement with Hollywood, and the international subgenre of science fiction parody. Chapters contain a variety of perspectives and styles: from gender and race studies, to the eco-critical, and the post-colonial; from the avant-garde, to socialist realism, and the Hammer film. Each chapter also provides a short overview of the history of science fiction cinema in the country of focus. Film traditions represented include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States plus a chapter on audiences and digital shorts. From the dinosaur myth that became Godzilla to Brazilian science fiction comedy, from China’s Death Ray to Kenya’s Pumzi, this book will broaden the horizons of scholars and students of science fiction. The book also includes a guide for further viewing at the back.Less
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into science fiction far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. The collection contains fourteen chapters written by specialists from around the world. Contributors take either a national or transnational approach, and stretch the geographic and conceptual boundaries of science fiction cinema. Recurrent themes include genre discussions, engagement with Hollywood, and the international subgenre of science fiction parody. Chapters contain a variety of perspectives and styles: from gender and race studies, to the eco-critical, and the post-colonial; from the avant-garde, to socialist realism, and the Hammer film. Each chapter also provides a short overview of the history of science fiction cinema in the country of focus. Film traditions represented include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States plus a chapter on audiences and digital shorts. From the dinosaur myth that became Godzilla to Brazilian science fiction comedy, from China’s Death Ray to Kenya’s Pumzi, this book will broaden the horizons of scholars and students of science fiction. The book also includes a guide for further viewing at the back.
Mariano Paz
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781380383
- eISBN:
- 9781781381557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380383.003.0013
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses the Argentinian film Adiós Querida Luna (Goodbye Dear Moon, dir. Fernando Spiner 2005), the first science fiction production from Argentina to be set entirely in outer space. ...
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This chapter discusses the Argentinian film Adiós Querida Luna (Goodbye Dear Moon, dir. Fernando Spiner 2005), the first science fiction production from Argentina to be set entirely in outer space. Drawing in particularly on the work of Néstor García Canclini, the article shows how the film addresses the traumas produced by the neoliberal policies applied in the country during the decade of 1990. I will argue that, by emphasising the processes of hybridisation that characterise modernity in Latin America, the film uses comedy to denounce a postcolonial world order in which Argentina is forced to compete with other nations for a better access to symbolic and financial resources.Less
This chapter discusses the Argentinian film Adiós Querida Luna (Goodbye Dear Moon, dir. Fernando Spiner 2005), the first science fiction production from Argentina to be set entirely in outer space. Drawing in particularly on the work of Néstor García Canclini, the article shows how the film addresses the traumas produced by the neoliberal policies applied in the country during the decade of 1990. I will argue that, by emphasising the processes of hybridisation that characterise modernity in Latin America, the film uses comedy to denounce a postcolonial world order in which Argentina is forced to compete with other nations for a better access to symbolic and financial resources.
