Contents
Contents
Introduction
1. Delicatessen: Eco-Apocalypse in the New French Science Fiction Cinema
2. Rewriting the 'American Dream': Postmodernism and Otherness in Independence Day
3. Displacements of Gender and Race in Space: Above and Beyond
4. Star Trek: First Contact: The Hybrid, the Whore and the Machine
5. Japanimation: Techno-Orientalism, Media Tribes and Rave Culture
6. Wicked Cities: The Other in Hong Kong Science Fiction
7. Saying 'Yours' and 'Mine' in Deep Space Nine
8. False and Double Consciousness: Race, Virtual Reality and the Assimilation of Hong Kong Act
9. Global Visions and European Perspectives
Notes on Contributors