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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 | |