Description: 1. Introduction: Endangering Science Fiction Film Sean Redmond and Leon Marvell Section One: The Philosophy of Science Fiction Endangerment 2. Section Introduction Sean Redmond 3. Kubrick's 2001 and the Dangers of Techno-Dystopia Doug Kellner 4. Eye Tracking the Sublime in Spectacular Moments of Science Fiction Film Sean Redmond 5. Hope in Children of Men and Firefly/Serenity: Nihilism, Waste and the Dialectics of the Sublime Sean Cubitt 6. Biopolitics and the War on Terror in World War Z and Monsters Sherryl Vint Section Two: Dangerous Aesthetics 7. Section Introduction Leon Marvell 8. Narrative, Aesthetics and Cultural Imperatives in Recent Science Fiction Films Deborah Knight and George McKnight 9. Adventures in Perception: Endangering the Spectator in Science Fiction Cinema Barry Keith Grant 10. Sleeping/Waking: Politicizing the Sublime in Science Fiction Film Special Effects Andrew M. Butler 11. Tarkovsky's Solaris and the (Im)possibility of a Science Fiction Cinema Leon Marvell Section Three: Spectacular Space and the Annihilation of Time 12. Section Introduction Sean Redmond 13. Subversive topologies: space, time and dystopia in the films of Gustavo Mosquera Mariano Paz 14. Escape from the Dialectic of Enlightenment and Disaster? Authenticity, Agency, and Alien Space Alan Woolfolk 15. Science Fiction: What's Wrong? The Sounds of Danger Versus Hearing Dangerously Darrin Verhagen Section Four: Bodily Extinctions and Bodily Becomings 16. Section Introduction Leon Marvell 17. Robots, Androids, Aliens and Others: the Erotics and Politics of Science Fiction Film Anne Cranny-Francis 18. The Persistence of the Robot J. P. Telotte 19. A Danger to Self and Others: The Cinema of David Cronenberg Scott Wilson

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