{"product_id":"red-alert-marxist-approaches-to-science-fiction-cinema-paperback","title":"Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEwa Mazierska\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlfredo Suppia\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRed Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and film share important connections concerning imaginings of the future. Contributors look at themes across a wide variety of films, including many international co-productions to explore individualism versus collectivism, technological obstacles to travel through time and space, the accumulation of capital and colonization, struggles of oppressed groups, the dangers of false ideologies, and the extension of the concept of labor due to technological advances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eRed Alert\u003c\/em\u003e considers a wide swath of contemporary international films, from the rarely studied to mainstream science fiction blockbusters like The Matrix. Contributors explore early Czechoslovak science fiction, the Polish-Estonian co-productions of director Marek Piestrak, and science fiction elements in 1970s American blaxploitation films. The collection includes analyses of recent films like \u003cem\u003eTransfer \u003c\/em\u003e(Damir Lukacevic), \u003cem\u003eAvalon\u003c\/em\u003e (Mamoru Oshii), \u003cem\u003eGamer\u003c\/em\u003e (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor), and \u003cem\u003eDistrict 9\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eElysium\u003c\/em\u003e (Neill Blomkamp), along with more obscure films like Alex Rivera's materialist science fiction works and the Latin American zombie films of Pablo Parés, Hernán Sáez, and Alejandro Brugués. Contributors show that the ambivalence and inner contradictions highlighted by the films illustrate both the richness of Marx's legacy and the heterogeneity and complexity of the science fiction genre.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This collection challenges the perception that science fiction cinema is a Western or specifically American genre, showing that a broader, transnational approach is necessary to fully understand its scope. Scholars and students of film, science fiction, and Marxist culture will enjoy\u003cem\u003e Red Alert\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEwa Mazierska is professor in film studies at the University of Central Lancashire and principal editor of a journal \u003ci\u003eStudies in Eastern European Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections, including \u003ci\u003eFrom Self-Fulfillment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present, Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema: Representing Neighbours on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e (with Eva Näripea and Lars Kristensen), and \u003ci\u003eWork in Cinema: Labor and Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e. Mazierska's work has been translated into almost twenty languages, including French, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Portugese, Estonian, and Serbian. Alfredo Suppia is professor of film studies at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eRarefied Atmosphere: Science Fiction in Brazilian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Replicant Metropolis: Constructing a Dialogue Between \u003c\/i\u003eMetropolis\u003ci\u003e and \u003c\/i\u003eBlade Runner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464782299389,"sku":"9780814340110","price":69.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/M9L1oVuv_M9780814340110.webp?v=1777261686","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/red-alert-marxist-approaches-to-science-fiction-cinema-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}