Description: Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Science Fiction and the Actual 1. High Treason : Great Expectations 2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931): Science, Society, and Sexuality 3. Cartoons and Technocracy: Disney's The Mad Doctor and Fleischer's Dancing on the Moon 4. Flash Gordon Conquers the Great Depression and World War Too! The Flash Gordon Serial Trilogy 5. Atomic City , Atomic World 6. Where Do Little Green Men Come From? A Speculative Look at the Origins of a Pop Culture Icon 7. In Them We Trust? Fear, Faith, and It Came from Outer Space 8. Secret Identity, Fragile Identity: TV's Superman in "Superman on Earth," "The Stolen Costume," "The Face and the Voice," and "Panic in the Sky" 9. The Atomic Kid : Radioactivity Finds Andy Hardy 10. Godzilla vs. the Military-Industrial Complex 11. Cosmic Frames and Cover-ups: Invasion of the Saucer Men and the UFO Conspiracy of Silence 12. The Cold War in Orbit: Two Films of Aliens, Arsenals, and Interventions 13. Scenes from a Marriage: The Sexual Politics of I Married a Monster from Outer Space 14. Two Faces of Voyeurism: Nude on the Moon and "X". The Man with the X-Ray Eyes 15. The Satan Bug : Some Nightmares Are Quite Inescapable 16. "Conclusion of All Our Yesterdays": The Jungian Text of The Omega Man 17. The Sport of Violence: Death Race 2000 and Rollerball 18. Logan's Run to Relevance 19. Entropy in B-flat; or, Disordered Thoughts on The Black Hole 20. Pets or Meat: Alien, Aliens , and the Indifference of the Gods 21. The Brave New World of Starship Troopers 22. The Iron Giant : A Gun with a Soul Contributors Index

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