CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

ONE     THE WONDER OF SCIENCE FICTION

1          Images of Wonder: The Look of Science Fiction

             Vivian Sobchack

2          ‘You’ve Got To Be Fucking Kidding!’: Knowledge, Belief and Judgement in Science Fiction

             Steve Neale

3          Sensuous Elaboration: Reason and the Visible in the Science Fiction Film

             Barry Keith Grant

4          Between Science Fact and Science Fiction: Spielberg’s Digital Dinosaurs, Possible Worlds and the New Aesthetic Realism

             Warren Buckland

TWO     SCIENCE FICTION’S DISASTER IMAGINATION

5          The Imagination of Disaster

             Susan Sontag

6          Technophobia/Dystopia

             Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner

7          Human Artifice and the Science Fiction Film

             J. P. Telotte

8          Dream Girls and Mechanic Panic: Dystopia and its Others in Brazil and Nineteen Eighty-Four

             Linda Ruth Williams

THREE  SPATIAL ABYSS: THE SCIENCE FICTION CITY

9          Cities on the Edge of Time: The Urban Science Fiction Film

             Vivian Sobchack

10        Dark City: White Flight and the Urban Science Fiction Film in Postwar America

             Eric Avila

11        On the Edge of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and Hong Kong’s Cityscape

             Wong Kin Yuen

FOUR    THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: TIME TRAVEL AND THE PRIMAL SCENE

12        Back to the Future: Oedipus as Time Traveller

             Andrew Gordon

13        Time Travel, Primal Scene and the Critical Dystopia

             Constance Penley

14        Another Time, Another Space: Modernity, Subjectivity and The Time Machine

             Jonathan Bignell

15        With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods

             Carol Schwartz Ellis

FIVE     LIQUID METAL: THE CYBORG IN SCIENCE FICTION

16        A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s

             Donna J. Haraway

17        Technophilia: Technology, Representation and the Feminine

             Mary Ann Doane

18        Machine as Messiah: Cyborgs, Morphs and the American Body Politic

             Doran Larson

19        Ghosts and Machines: The Technological Body

             Susan J. Napier

SIX       IMITATION OF LIFE: POSTMODERN SCIENCE FICTION

20        Postfuturism

             Vivian Sobchack

21        Who Programs You? The Science Fiction of the Spectacle

             Scott Bukatman

22        Prosthetic Memory: Totall Recall and Blade Runner

             Alison Landsberg

23        Akira, Postmodernism and Resistance

             Isolde Standish

SEVEN  POACHING THE UNIVERSE: SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM

24        Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching

             Henry Jenkins III

25        ‘We’re Only A Speck in the Ocean’: The Fan as Powerless Elite

             John Tulloch

26        New Hope: The Postmodern Project of Star Wars

             Will Brooker

27        Web of Babylon

             Kurt Lancaster

EIGHT   LOOK TO THE SKIES!: 1950s SCIENCE FICTION INVASION NARRATIVES

28        The Russians Are Coming, Aren’t They? Them! and The Thing

             Peter Biskind

29        Re-examining the 1950s Invasion Narratives

             Mark Jancovich

30        We’re the Martians Now: British SF Invasion Fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s

             Peter Hutchings

INDEX