Red alert : Marxist approaches to science fiction cinema / edited by Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia.

Contributor Mazierska, Ewa.

Imprint:Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, c2016.

Descriptionvi, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction : Marxism and science fiction cinema / Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia -- First contact or primal scene : communism meets real socialism meets capitalism in early Czechoslovak science fiction cinema / Petra Hankov -- Soviet and post-Soviet images of capitalism : ideological fissures in Marek Piestrak's Polish-Estonian coproductions / Eva Nripea -- Paying freedom dues : Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation science fiction / Mark Bould -- The biopolitics of globalization in Damir Lukacevic's Transfer / Sherryl Vint -- Capitalism and wasted lives in District 9 and Elysium / Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia -- Marxism vs. postmodernism : the case of The matrix / Tony Burns -- Representation of "gaming capitalism" in Avalon and Gamer / Ewa Mazierska -- Remote exploitations : Alex Rivera's materialist SF cinema in the age of cognitive capitalism / Alfredo Suppia -- Rags and revolution : visions of the Lumpenproletariat in Latin American zombie films / Mariano Paz.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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