Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Dry Future: Just Imagine (1930) 2. The Prophet and the Showman: Things to Come (1936) 3. Screening Wells for Cold War America: The War of the Worlds (1953) 4. The British Invasions: The Quatermass Experiment (1955), Quatermass 2 (1957) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) 5. Sex and the Single Robot: Forbidden Planet (1956) 6. The Watershed: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 7. Monkey Business: Planet of the Apes (1968) 8. Stretching the Genre: The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) 9. Future Imperfect: Logan's Run (1976) 10. No Time for Sorrows: Star Wars (1977) 11. Rustbelt Messiah: RoboCop (1987) 12. The Image as Hero: Avatar (2009) Afterword Filmography Index