Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema

Description: Explores the intersections of science fiction cinema and Marxism.

Brief description: Ewa Mazierska is professor in film studies at the University of Central Lancashire and principal editor of a journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections, including From 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 (with Eva Näripea and Lars Kristensen), and Work in Cinema: Labor and Human Condition. Mazierska's work has been translated into almost twenty languages, including French, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Portugese, Estonian, and Serbian.

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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.