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This chapter explores Nosso Lar/Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (Wagner de Assis, 2010) and Branco sai, preto fica/White Out, Black In (Adirley Queirós, 2014) and contends that the two films appropriate tropes of the science fiction genre to construct utopian subjectivities in the way they depict urban spaces. Moreover, it argues that while Nosso Lar depicts a retrofuturistic extraterrestrial city in the Spiritist tradition where the protagonist is able to transform himself in line with a neoliberal ideology, the apocalyptical city of Branco sai, preto fica is a place of catastrophic destruction which functions as a space for revenge for the traumatic injustice endured by the characters.
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Cordoba, A. (2017). Astral Cities, New Selves: Utopian Subjectivities in Nosso Lar and Branco Sai, Preto Fica . In: da Silva, A., Cunha, M. (eds) Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48267-5_8
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