An introduction to the philosophy of science fiction film / Steven M. Sanders --
Pt. 1. Enigmas of identity and agency --
What is it to be human? : Blade runner and Dark city / Deborah Knight, George McKnight --
Recalling the self : personal identity in Total recall / Shai Biderman --
Picturing paranoia : interpreting Invasion of the body snatchers / Steven M. Sanders --
The existential Frankenstein / Jennifer L. McMahon --
Pt. 2. Extraterrestrial visitation, time travel, and artificial intelligence --
Technology and ethics in The day the earth stood still / Aeon J. Skoble --
Some paradoxes of time travel in The terminator and 12 monkeys / William J. Devlin --
2001 : a philosophical odyssey / Kevin L. Stoehr --
Terminator-fear and the paradox of fiction / Jason Holt --
Pt. 3. Brave newer world : science fiction futurism
dialectic of Enlightenment in Metropolis / Jerold J. Abrams --
Imagining the future, contemplating the past : the screen versions of 1984 / R. Barton Palmer --
Disenchantment and rebellion in Alphaville / Alan Woolfolk --
The matrix, the cave, and the cogito / Mark T. Conard.
