Red Alert

This book is highly recommendable for those who are interested in understanding the current Western society and the need to find a film counter discourse to the hegemonic narration of society. Despite the complexity of the subject, the authors have created an accessible text for all kind of readers and provide us with interesting tools to analyze our world.-- (05/03/2018) This is the first volume of criticism devoted specifically to the multiple intersections of Marxist philosophies and science fiction cinema, but - far more importantly - it establishes its primacy through rigorous scholarly quality. From pre-1989 Eastern European productions to Blaxploitation science fiction to global films from Mexico, South America, and Japan, Red Alert comprehensively maps the convergences and contradictions embodied in the cultural form of science fiction cinema. At once a media form of the genre known for its progressive critiques of global status quo and a product of the industries it often discursively engages, science fiction cinema is a mirror of the world in which complexities reign supreme and Marxist approaches are the only ones fully capable of illuminating the dialectics of late capitalism.--Pawel Frelik "Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland " Representing diversities of both geography and politics, Red Alert covers a broad array of film traditions from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Africa, the US, and Asia, as well as international coproductions. With essays by established and emerging authorities in the field, this collection continues the tradition of studies such as Red Stars and Red Planets, and it breaks important new ground with its focus on science fiction cinema.--Rachel Haywood Ferreira "author of The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction " I cannot image the reader of this journal who would not find Red Alert an enjoyable and profitable anthology.--Carl Freedman"Science Fiction Film and Television" (11/27/2017)

Ewa Mazierska is professor in film studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK and principal editor of Studies in Eastern European Cinema. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections, including From Self-Fulfilment 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 (with Eva Nripea and Lars Kristensen), and Work in Cinema: Labor and Human Condition. Mazierskas 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 Rarefied Atmosphere: Science Fiction in Brazilian Cinema and The Replicant Metropolis: Constructing a Dialogue Between Metropolis and Blade Runner.