Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction - Alien Identities: Exploring Difference in Film and Fiction -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 1 Satan Bugs in the Hot Zone: Microbial Pathogens as Alien Invaders -- Notes -- 2 America's Domestic Aliens: African Americans and the Issue of Citizenship in the Jefferson/ Hemings Story -- Notes -- 3 See Europe with ITC: Stock Footage and the Construction of Geographical Identity -- Notes -- 4 Leaving the West and Entering the East: Refiguring the Alien from Stoker to Coppola -- Notes -- 5 Another Time, Another Space: Modernity, Subjectivity and The Time Machine -- Notes -- 6 'The Martians Are Coming!': Civilisation v. Invasion in The War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks! -- Notes -- 7 Vagabond Desire: Aliens, Alienation and Human Regeneration in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky s Roadside Picnic and Andrey Tarkovsky s Stalker -- Notes -- 8 Adaptation, Teleportation and Mutation from Langelaan s to Cronenberg s The Fly -- Notes -- 9 The Alien Series and Generic Hybridity -- Notes -- 10 Aliens, ( M) Others, Cyborgs: The Emerging Ideology of Hybridity -- Notes -- Index -- absence of generic framework 165 -- Acres, Birt, 95 -- action films, 157 -- Adams, John 41 -- Adams, John Quincy 41 -- adaptability -- of myth, 82 -- of species [in Alien series], 158 -- adaptation -- in The Fly , 146-7 -- in The Fly , 146-7 -- in The Fly , 149 -- in The Fly , 149 -- of book to film, 104-5 -- of book to film, 146 -- of book to film, 152-3 -- Adventures of Robin Hood The [ATV, 1955] 50 -- Africa, depicted as alien -- 18-19 -- 23 -- 26 -- 27 -- African Americans -- alienation of, 4 -- alienation of, 33 -- alienation of, 39-40 -- alienation of, 42-3 -- and black rights, 42-3 -- descent from slaves, 31 -- Alien film series, hybridity in -- 7 -- 156-70 -- Alien Resurrection -- female agency in, 182-4.

female agency in, 185 -- hybridity in, 173 -- hybridity in, 176 -- monstrosity of aliens, 175-6 -- relationship, 180-2 -- [ 7 -- [ 156 -- [ 158 -- [ 167-9 -- Alien [1979] -- 2 -- 156 -- 158 -- 165 -- as horror film, 159-61 -- as horror film, 166 -- survival of Ripley, 160-1 -- Alien3 [1992] -- 156 -- 158 -- 165-7 -- alienation -- in everyday life, 122 -- of African Americans, 4 -- of African Americans, 33 -- of African Americans, 39-40 -- of African Americans, 42-3 -- of individual, 124-7 -- of individual, 124-7 -- of individual, 133-4 -- of individual, 133-4 -- to disorientate, 59 -- Aliens [1986] -- 156 -- 158 -- 165 -- as war film, 161 -- as war film, 161 -- as war film, 162-4 -- as war film, 162-4 -- alien[s] -- 2-3 -- 4 -- as expressing fears of humanity , 6 -- as expressing fears of humanity , 7 -- as expressing fears of humanity , 12-13 -- and citizens, 4 -- and citizens, 39-40 -- and citizens, 42-3 -- and familiar, 92-4 -- and familiar, 99-100 -- as beautiful, 173 -- as non-human, 4 -- as non-human, 4 -- as non-human, 164 -- as non-human, 164 -- as non-human, 175-6 -- as non-human, 175-6 -- destruction of, 81 -- female, 184 -- myth of, 76 -- Amistad [1998] 42 -- androids -- 168 -- 172 -- 176 -- Andromeda Strain , The[Crichton] 13-15 -- Apocalypse Now [1979] 77 -- Arabs, as acceptable enemy 2 -- Arc D'X [Erickson] -- 37 -- 38 -- 39 -- 40 -- 43-4 -- Arendt, Hannah, on slavery 33 -- artificiality -- 54 -- television's use of, 58-60 -- as unnatural 152 -- Australia, Saint episode set in 64-5n -- Avengers , The 65n -- Bakhtin, Mikhail -- 73 -- 170 -- on genre, 156-7 -- on genre, 156-7 -- on genre, 158 -- on genre, 158 -- Baldick, Chris 68 -- Baldwin, James 35-6 -- Batchelor, John 117 -- Baudrillard, Jean, on simulacrum 61-2 -- Baudry, Jean-Louis 100 -- Baumgart, Winfried 107 -- Baxter, John 104.

Benjamin, Walter 93 -- Bergonzi, Bernard 110 -- Bernds, Edward, Return of the Fly -- 141 -- 142 -- 143-4 -- 149 -- biocontainment, of pathogens -- 18-20 -- 21 -- Blade Runner [1982] -- 172 -- 173 -- Blue Lamp , The [1949] 50 -- body -- as alien terrain, 23 -- as alien terrain, 26 -- as besieged, 21 -- Bond, James, films -- 50-1 -- 53 -- Bram Stoker's Dracula [1992] -- 68 -- 76-9 -- Hart's script, 78 -- Hart's script, 78 -- Hart's script, 79-80 -- Hart's script, 79-80 -- Hart's script, 81 -- Hart's script, 81 -- Brodie, Fawn, Thomas Jefferson 33 -- Brook, Peter 173 -- Brown, Jeffrey A. -- 160 -- 163 -- Brown, William Wells -- 39 -- Clotel or The President's Daughter , 33-4 -- Burton, Tim, Mars Attacks! -- 105 -- 106 -- Callender, James Thomson -- 32 -- 33 -- Cameron, James -- 163 -- 164 -- Aliens [ 156 -- Aliens [ 156 -- Aliens [ 157 -- Aliens [ 157 -- Aliens [ 161 -- Aliens [ 161 -- Carpenter, John 159 -- Carriers [Lynch] -- 12 -- 24 -- 25 -- Champions , The [ITC, 1967] -- 56 -- 59 -- Chase-Riboud, Barbara, 'Sally Hemings Chronicles' -- 34 -- 35 -- 40-2 -- 43 -- Chesnutt, Charles, The House Behind the Cedars 40 -- cinema -- and advantage of colour, 49 -- early devices, 91-2 -- early devices, 93 -- early devices, 94 -- Paul's invention [ 96-7 -- Paul's invention [ 98 -- principles of, 100 -- principles of, 153 -- citizens, and alienation -- 4 -- 39-40 -- 42-3 -- Clancy, Tom, Executive Orders -- 12 -- 13 -- 16 -- 17 -- 23 -- class, in Stalker 124-6 -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1977] -- 2 -- 159 -- Clover, Carol 160 -- Cobra Event , The [Preston] 11 -- coincidences, in history 41 -- colour -- for exoticism, 51 -- ming, 49-50 -- ming, 52 -- use of in Stalker , 136-7 -- Coming Plague , The [Garrett] -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- 20 -- 26 -- Contact [1998] 2 -- control -- individual, 123-7 -- individual, 133-4.

subject's lack of, 149 -- Coppola, Francis Ford -- 5-6 -- 68 -- Apocalypse Now , 77 -- Bram Stoker's Dracula , 76 -- Bram Stoker's Dracula , 76 -- Bram Stoker's Dracula , 77 -- Bram Stoker's Dracula , 77 -- Bram Stoker's Dracula , 79-80 -- Bram Stoker's Dracula , 79-80 -- copying, as theme in The Fly -- 143-5 -- 149 -- Cosway, Maria, and Thomas Jefferson 36 -- creator-creature relationship -- Monster Dogs , 178-9 -- Resurrection , 180-2 -- Crewe, Jonathan 185 -- Crichton, Michael, The Andromeda Strain 13-15 -- Cronenberg, David, The Fly -- 141 -- 142-3 -- 144-5 -- 146-7 -- Cross, Larry 159 -- culture, roles of 67 -- cyborg -- humanity of, 175 -- humanity of, 177 -- humanity of, 183-4 -- survival of, 177 -- Danger Man [ITC, 1960] -- 56 -- 58 -- 59 -- Darwinism -- 88 -- and survivors, 109 -- social, 107-8 -- Day the Earth Stood Still , The [1951] 2 -- Department S [ATV/ITC, 1968] -- 54-5 -- 57 -- 59-60 -- 63 -- dialogism, concept of -- 157 -- 170 -- Dirty Dozen , The [1967] 161 -- disease -- as germ warfare, 15-16 -- as germ warfare, 20 -- as uncontrollable, 13-16 -- biocontainment of, 18-20 -- biocontainment of, 21 -- military reaction to, 4 -- military reaction to, 19-20 -- political metaphors for, 20-1 -- real concerns, 11 -- real concerns, 26 -- Dixon of Dock Green [BBC, 1955] 53 -- dogs, talking [as motif] 175 -- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , The Strange Case of [Stevenson] 66 -- Dracula [Stoker] -- 66 -- 69 -- adaptability of story, 68-9 -- adaptability of story, 82 -- films of, 66 -- films of, 68-9 -- narrative structuring, 69-71 -- narrative structuring, 72-5 -- narrative structuring, 76 -- original reviews, 72-3 -- Dragnet [ITV, 1955] 50 -- Dream of Electric Sheep 172 -- E.T. -- The Extraterrestrial 1 -- The Extraterrestrial 2 -- Eaton, Michael 168 -- Ebola virus -- 4 -- 12 -- 13 -- 17 -- 27-8.

in The Hot Zone , 14-15 -- Edison Kinetoscope, New York [1894] -- 93 -- 94 -- Ellison, Ralph -- 35 -- Invisible Man , 40 -- Erickson, Steve -- 39 -- Arc D'X , 37 -- Arc D'X , 37 -- Arc D'X , 38 -- Arc D'X , 38 -- Arc D'X , 39 -- Arc D'X , 39 -- Arc D'X , 40 -- Arc D'X , 40 -- Arc D'X , 43-4 -- Arc D'X , 43-4 -- Europe -- as tourist destination, 51-3 -- British view of, 52 -- British view of, 63 -- stock film footage of, 55-6 -- stock film footage of, 57 -- stock film footage of, 61 -- event films 159 -- evolution -- and transformation, 151 -- in The Time Machine , 87-8 -- in War of the Worlds , 107-8 -- in War of the Worlds , 107-8 -- in War of the Worlds , 110 -- in War of the Worlds , 110 -- of Martians, 105-6 -- pathogens, 23-5 -- Executive Orders [Clancy] -- 12 -- 13 -- 16 -- 17 -- 23 -- Exorcist , The [1973] 161 -- facsimile, television use of 59 -- Farson, Daniel -- 68 -- 82 -- female agency -- power of, 182-4 -- power of, 185 -- feminist science fiction 177 -- film -- adaptations of fiction, 104-5 -- adaptations of fiction, 146 -- adaptations of fiction, 152-3 -- stock location footage, 5 -- stock location footage, 53-7 -- stock location footage, 61 -- film adaptations of -- 104-5 -- 146 -- 152-3 -- and history, 34-5 -- and history, 38-9 -- Fincher, David, Alien[3][ -- Fincher, David, Alien[ 156 -- Fincher, David, Alien[ 165-6 -- Fly , The [1958, Neumann] -- 7 -- 141 -- 142-3 -- 148-9 -- Fly , The [1986, Cronenberg] -- 7 -- 141 -- 142-3 -- 144-5 -- 146-7 -- Fly , The [Langelaan] -- 141 -- 142 -- 143 -- 147 -- 149 -- Frankenstein [Shelley] -- 7 -- 66 -- 173-4 -- 181 -- influence on Monster Dogs , 178 -- influence on Monster Dogs , 178 -- influence on Monster Dogs , 179 -- influence on Monster Dogs , 179 -- influence on Monster Dogs , 182 -- influence on Monster Dogs , 182 -- Frayling, Christopher 68.

Freud, Sigmund, on the uncanny 23.