Projecting Tomorrow : Science Fiction and Popular Cinema (Paperback)

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Dry Future: Just Imagine (1930) The Prophet and the Showman: Things to Come (1936) Screening Wells for Cold War America: The War of the Worlds (1953) The British Invasions: The Quatermass Experiment (1955), Quatermass 2 (1957) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) Sex and the Single Robot: Forbidden Planet (1956) The Watershed: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Monkey Business: Planet of the Apes (1968) Stretching the Genre: The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) Future Imperfect: Logan's Run (1976) No Time for Sorrows: Star Wars (1977) Rustbelt Messiah: RoboCop (1987) The Image as Hero: Avatar (2009) Afterword Filmography Index