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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• contents
• acknowledgments
• 1. we are in danger
• section one: the philosophy of science fiction endangerment
• 2. section one introduction
• 3. kubrick’s 2001 and the dangers of techno-dystopia
• 4. eye-tracking the sublime in spectacular moments of science fiction film
• 5. hope in children of men and firefly/serenity: nihilism, waste, and the dialectics of the sublime
• 6. biopolitics and the war on terror in world war z and monsters
• section two: dangerous aesthetics
• 7. section two introduction
• 8. narrative, aesthetics, and cultural imperatives in recent science fiction films
• 9. adventures in perception: endangering the spectator in science fiction cinema
• 10. sleeping/waking: politicizing the sublime in science fiction film special effects
• 11. tarkovsky’s solaris and the (im)possibility of a science fiction cinema
• section three: spectacular space and the annihilation of time
• 12. section three introduction
• 13. subversive topologies: space, time, and dystopia in the films of gustavo mosquera
• 14. escape from the dialectic of enlightenment and disaster? authenticity, agency, and alien space
• 15. science fiction: what’s wrong? the sounds of danger versus hearing dangerously
• section four: bodily extinctions and bodily becomings
• 16. section four introduction
• 17. robots, androids, aliens, and others: the erotics and politics of science fiction film
• 18. the persistence of the robot
• 19. a danger to self and others: the cinema of david cronenberg
• contributors
• about the american film institute
• index