Socio-Environmental Emergencies and Futuristic Imaginaries in Iberian and Latin American Cinemas and Television

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue proposes a conversation on Iberian and Latin American cinemas and TVs as well as on the critical field of Iberian and Latin American film and TV studies in the context of the ongoing socioenvironmental emergency and the global systemic collapse. The purpose is to reflect on whether and how Iberian and Latin American films, filmmakers, critics, and scholars have responded to, reflected on, or represented the socioenvironmental emergency; how they have envisioned the future of their regions, of human civilization, and of the planet; and how they have (or have not) used the medium to teach the public and to promote social–environmental change. A broader discussion is also welcome on the uncertain future of cinema and television themselves as industrial, technological art, and communication forms. Essays on films, TV series, and filmmakers from all nations and languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, and the Caribbean will be considered, as well as on all film and TV genres, including fiction and non-fiction, from sci-fi to horror, action-adventure, disaster, fantasy, and comedy. Substantial interviews with filmmakers are encouraged as well. Potential topics and key terms for the essays may include but are certainly not limited to:

• Utopias, dystopias, protopias
• Solar punk, hope punk, ray punk, and other cyber punk subgenres
• Speculative fiction films
• Transitions
• Post-carbon, post-capitalist futures
• Pedagogy of futuristic cinema and TV
• Systemic collapse
• Visions of the apocalypse and post-apocalyptic worlds
• Futuristic films and the question of spectatorship
• Food and agriculture in futuristic films
• Humor and satire in futuristic films
• Decolonizing the imagination
• Futuristic films as agents of subversion, resistance, or change
• Futuristic films as historical films, the future as a mirror of the present
• The role of technology in futuristic films
• Techno-optimism
• Film adaptations of literary works
• Futuristic films and social-environmental justice
• Religion, redemption, salvation
• Sustainable and regenerative futures

Prof. Dr. Jorge Mari
Guest Editor

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