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| Introduction | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Trick Effects (1907) | |
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| Mr. Wells Reviews a Current Film (1927) | |
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| Metropolis (1927) | |
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| Wells the Visionary (1936) | |
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| Adventures in Outer Space | |
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| Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon) (1929) | |
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| Destination Moon: Real Science Fiction and the Real World (2004) | |
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| Moon Pilot (2004) | |
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| Starship Troopers (1998) | |
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| The 1950s | |
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| The Day the Earth Stood Still: Interview with Robert Wise (1988) | |
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| "This Means Something!" Invaders from Mars (2004) | |
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| U-I Sci-Fi: Studio Aesthetics and 1950s Metaphysics (2004) | |
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| Imagining Disaster | |
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| The Imagination of Disaster (1965) | |
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| D is for Doomsday: Five (2004) | |
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| Don Siegel on the Pod Society (1976) | |
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| Nearer My Pod to Thee (1994) | |
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| The 1960s | |
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| The Damned (2004) | |
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| Intonation Please: The Creation of the Humanoids (2004) | |
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| Signifying Monkeys: Politics and Story-Telling in The Planet of the Apes Series (2004) | |
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| Kubrick and Others | |
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| The Myth of 2001 (1969) | |
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| Alien Encounters: Science Fiction and the Mysterium in 2001, Solaris, and Contact (2004) | |
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| Juice from A Clockwork Orange (1972) | |
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| The Best of Both Worlds: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) | |
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| Star Wars | |
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| "The Man Understands the Metaphor": Joseph Campbell on Star Wars (1990) | |
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| Not So Long Ago and Far Away: Star Wars, Republics and Empires of Tomorrow (2004) | |
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| E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial | |
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| Steven Spielberg on E.T. (2004) | |
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| The Pure and the Impure (1982) | |
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| Well, I Don't Love You, E.T. (1982) | |
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| The Films of Philip K. Dick | |
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| "They Did Sight Stimulation on My Brain": Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner (1984, 1991) | |
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| Blade Runner (1986) | |
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| "I Think, Therefore I Am"--Cartesian Motifs in the Filmed Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (2004) | |
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| Cyborg Cinema | |
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| Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) | |
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| Bodies Without Organs: Cyborg Cinema of the 1980s (1995/2004) | |
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| Reproducing Ripley (2001/2004) | |
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| Travels in Time and Place | |
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| Modernity and Mise-en-Scene: Terry Gilliam and Brazil (1998) | |
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| Time Travel and Spectatorship in 12 Monkeys and Strange Days (2001) | |
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| The Philosophy of Time Travel: Back to the Future Again, or The Last Temptation of Donnie Darko (2004) | |
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| Gods and Aliens | |
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| Joe Dante's American Apocalypse (1999) | |
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| Discourse on Sovereignity: The Truman Show (2001) | |
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| Real Men Wear Black: The Men in Black Films (2004) | |
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| Signs of Spiritual Life (or Why You Are the Alien Species) (2004) | |
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| The Matrix, or the Two Sides of Perversion (2002) | |
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| Contributors | |