Table of Contents

Preface to the Enlarged Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the First Edition
1. The Limits of the Genre: Definitions and Themes
2. Images of Wonder: The Look of Science Fiction
3. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Sounds of Science Fiction
4. Postfuturism
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Vivian Sobchack is professor of film studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the 1995 winner of the Pilgrim Award for scholarship in science fiction and author of several books on film, including The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience.