Page numbers in italics denote art.
Amenábar, Alejandro, 278–281
Arkoff, Samuel Z., 178
Arness, James, 51, 52, 53–54, 67, 69
Asimov, Isaac, 143–144, 180, 232, 268, 331
Bay, Michael, 326–327, 328, 390
BDs/graphic novels, 77, 154, 156, 209–210, 231, 283, 286, 359
Belafonte, Harry, 106–107, 106, 162
Bigelow, Kathryn, 270–273
Blomkamp, Neill, 341–344
Boorman, John, 398
Bottin, Rob, 212, 252–253, 259, 261
Boyle, Danny, 389
Bradbury, Ray, 65, 67, 144–146, 167, 358
Brave New World (book, 1932), 84, 181, 388
Bridges, James, 163–164
Burton, Tim, 159, 385, 395, 399, 400
Cameron, James, 199–201, 201, 204, 234–237, 249, 256–259, 270–271, 332–335
Campbell, John W., 48, 51, 53, 212–213
Campbell, Joseph, 184, 207, 298
Čapek, Karel, 331
Carpenter, John, 28, 118, 168, 197, 201–204, 212–215, 385, 395
Carrey, Jim, 289–292, 290, 316, 317–318
CGI (computer generated imagery), 265, 330, 349, 391
Chaney, Lon, Sr., 16
Children of Men (novel, 1922), 322
Clarke, Arthur C., 150–152
Clockwork Orange, A (novel, 1962), 388
Cloud Atlas (novel, 2004), 355–357
Cobb, Ron, 196–199, 256, 256, 259, 391
Cocteau, Jean, 377
Collins, Suzanne, 370, 371, 372
Connery, Sean, 306, 390, 398, 399
Conran, Kerry, 312–315
Cooper, Merian C., 44–46
Coppola, Francis Ford, 162, 166–168, 342
Corman, Roger, 129, 161–162, 175, 200, 204, 234, 256, 390, 391, 400
Cox, Alex, 383
Crichton, Michael, 175–176, 179, 263, 265–266, 399
Cronenberg, David, 204, 261, 291
Cruise, Tom, 281, 309–311, 310
Cuarón, Alfonso, 322–326, 366–369
del Toro, Guillermo, 390
DeMille, Cecil B., 61–63
Dick, Philip K., 226, 228, 259–263, 309–311
Disney, Walt/The Walt Disney Studio, 3, 69, 70–72, 77, 95, 121–124, 126, 142, 174, 176, 210, 216, 233, 242, 266, 286, 308, 329–330, 332, 348–350, 373, 399
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (novel, 1968), 228
Donner, Richard, 392
Dr. Who (TV), 390
dystopia, xvi, 5, 24, 37, 84, 115, 132, 145, 181, 195, 202, 210, 254, 262, 271, 276, 320, 323, 330, 356, 371, 388–389
Eastwood, Clint, 204, 303–306, 305
Einstein, Albert, xiv, 46, 101
Ellison, Harlan, 383
Emmerich, Roland, 266, 269–270, 397
Fahrenheit 451 (novel, 1953), 145, 167, 358
Fellini, Federico, 388
Fincher, David, 23
Finney, Jack, 86–88
First Men in the Moon, The (book, 1901), xiv, 2, 8
Fleischer, Max, 3, 126, 143, 312, 375
Ford, Harrison, 183, 216, 226, 227, 229, 266
Frankenheimer, John, 26, 137, 139–140, 395
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (book, 1818), xiii, 17, 27, 137–139, 308, 341, 350, 354
Frankenstein myth, 14, 23, 25, 52, 152, 165, 308, 350–351, 379, 385, 402. See also under individual movies
From the Earth to the Moon (book, 1865), xiv, 2, 8
Godard, Jean–Luc, 131–134
Gondry, Michel, 315–319
graphic novel. See BDs/graphic novels
gross-out/splatter effect, 214, 247
Gunn, James, 373–376
Hammer Films, 147
Harryhausen, Ray, 65–67, 89–91, 97, 259, 264, 375
Hawks, Howard, 51, 54, 56, 59, 214, 376
Hecht, Ben, 387
Heinlein, Robert A., 47–50, 390
Hero With a Thousand Faces, The (book, 1949), 184
Heston, Charlton, 137, 142, 156, 164, 356, 395
Hitchcock, Alfred, 29, 98, 124–126, 136, 146, 195, 210, 276, 278, 311, 329, 368
Howard, Ron, 241–243
Hunger Games, The (novel, 2008), 371
I Am Legend (book, 1954), 129–130, 389
I, Robot (book, 1950), 143
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (book, 1896), 24
James, P. D., 322
Jewison, Norman, 399
Jolie, Angelina, 312, 313, 369
Karloff, Boris, 14, 16, 18, 19, 29, 30–31, 34, 46; as influence, 53
Kaufman, Charlie, 315–317, 319
Kramer, Stanley, 108–110
Kubrick, Stanley, xii, 31, 50, 74, 110, 123, 150–153, 170, 268, 271, 305, 307–308, 385, 386, 388; as influence, 171, 182, 229, 331
Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 14–16, 25, 26–27, 30, 31, 33
Laloux, Rene, 172–175
Lasseter, John, 329–330
Levinson, Barry, 399
Lisberger, Steven, 348–349
Losey, Joseph, 377
Lost in Space (TV), 94
Lucas, George, xviii, xix, xx, 6, 38, 43, 94, 133, 166–169, 183–190, 207, 213, 217, 223, 265, 288, 289, 296–303, 306, 312, 342, 368
Lugosi, Bela, 16, 19, 23, 24, 26–27, 27, 29, 30, 31, 34, 385, 400
Mamoulian, Rouben, 19–20, 22–23
Marker, Chris, 274–275
Matheson, Richard, 46, 98–101, 127–130
McTeigue, James, 319–321
Méliès, George, xv, xxvi, 1–3, 10, 12, 28, 42, 45
Menzies, William Cameron, ii, 35–37, 58–60
Meyer, Nicholas, 193–196, 218–226, 400
Miller, George, 205–208
Miyazaki, Hayao, 230–233
Mysterious Island, The (book, 1874), 74
Nietzsche, Friedrich, xiv, 318
Nimoy, Leonard, 218, 219, 221–223, 224, 225–226, 336, 337
1984 (novel, 1949), 12, 82–84, 167, 181
Nolan, Christopher, xvii, 345–347, 362, 364, 394
O’Bannon, Dan, 183, 196–198, 259, 261, 385, 395, 398
Oboler, Arch, 389
Orwell, George, 12, 82–85, 147, 167, 181, 320
Oshii, Mamoru. See Mamoru Oshii
Pal, George, 47–50, 61, 63–64, 112–115, 123, 380, 381
Planet of the Apes (book, 1963), 156, 173
Poe, Edgar Allan, 26–27, 28, 30–31, 129–130, 277
Proyas, Alex, 384
Rains, Claude, 31–34
Roddenberry, Gene, 94, 219–220, 305, 336–337, 340
Romero, George A., 130, 160–162, 168, 204
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots, play, 1920), 331
Sayles, John, 387
Schoedsack, Ernest B., 44–46
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 199, 234, 235, 236, 248–249, 259, 260, 261
Science Fiction Theatre (TV), 100
Scott, Ridley, 6, 196–198, 215, 226–229, 311
Serling, Rod, xviii, xix, 61, 94, 130, 143, 156–157, 159, 235–237, 240, 243, 291, 295, 308–309
Shelley, Mary Wolstonecraft, xiii, 14, 16–19, 27. See also Frankenstein myth
Shrinking Man, The (novel, 1956), 46, 100
Spielberg, Steven, xviii, 57, 61, 64, 112, 121, 124, 168, 190–193, 201, 207, 213, 215–218, 238–240, 259, 262, 263–266, 285–288, 289, 307–311, 327–328, 380, 384
Star Trek (TV), 93, 135, 143, 165, 219–220, 224, 280, 305, 336–337, 340, 347, 372
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 19–20, 22
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (book, 1886), 20
Sturges, John, 134–136
Tarantino, Quentin, 133
Tarkovsky, Andrei, 169–171
Time Machine, The (book, 1895), 113, 196
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (TV, 1950–1955), 10
Trial, The (novel, 1925), 295, 388
Trnka, Jiři, 174
Truffaut, François, 144–146, 190
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (book, 1870), 70
Twilight Zone, The (TV series, 1959–1964), xviii, 61, 94, 130, 159, 235–237, 238, 240, 280, 289, 291, 295, 308–309, 345–347, 351, 372, 389
Tykwer, Tom, 355–357
Vadim, Roger, 153–155
Verhoeven, Paul, 252, 259–262, 390
Verne, Jules, xiv, xv, 1–2, 8, 70–74, 116, 144
Vidal, Gore, 385–386
von Braun, Wernher, 8, 51, 133
Wachowski, Andy and Lana, 292, 294–295, 319, 322, 355–357
War of the Worlds (book, 1898), 62
War of the Worlds (radio broadcast, 1938), 194, 312
Watkins, Peter, 389
Welles, Orson, 63, 75, 194, 312, 319, 344, 388. See also War of the Worlds (radio broadcast)
Wells, H. G., ii, xiv, xv, xvii, 1–2, 6, 8, 23–26, 31–32, 34–37, 61, 63, 64, 84, 112–115, 144, 147, 181, 193–196. See also War of the Worlds (book)
Wenders, Wim, 377
Whale, James, xv, 14–19, 31–32, 34
Willis, Bruce, 274, 275, 276, 282, 283–284, 390
Windsor, Marie, 400
Winston, Stan, 199, 212, 214, 234, 236, 248, 249, 263, 307, 333, 392, 395
Wise, Robert, 55–57, 59, 91, 219
Wood, Edward D., Jr., 400
Wyatt, Rupert, 351–354
Wyndham, John, 115–121
Zemeckis, Robert, 238–240