Intro -- TOLD YOU SO: A PERSONAL FOREWORD -- THE WARNINGS AND ADVICES OF THE PANDEMIC CINEMA -- SCIENCE FICTION AS A METHOD: PREPARING FOR LATE MODERN CHALLENGES -- COMPLEXITY, RISK, LONELINESS: NAVIGATING LATE MODERNITY USING FILMS -- UNHEARD PROPHETS, UNHEARD PROFITEERS: SELF-REFLECTIVE PREMONITIONS -- DANGEROUS IGNORANCE, UNTEACHABLE IGNORAMUSES AND CRISIS-EXPERTS -- ENDANGERMENT, DEMORALISATION AND LONELINESS OF HELPERS AND OFFICIALS -- VIOLENCE, POGROMS, TERRORISM: SOCIETY ON THE BRINK OF ANARCHY -- BIOTERRORISM AND FAILED EXPERIMENTS: FIGHTING INVISIBLE ENEMIES -- HOPELESSNESS AND FEAR: LIVING A LIFE WITHOUT A FUTURE -- SUDDENLY ALONE: HOW TO SURVIVE SELF-ISOLATION -- URBAN ICONOGRAPHY OF THE PANDEMIC: FAILING CITIES -- POST-MODERN LONELINESS AND THE HOPE FOR NEW COMMUNITIES -- LITERATURE -- DISCUSSED FILMS.