Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

This book critically analyses the role of transnational interactions and cosmopolitan ideals in the science fiction cinemas of twenty-first century.

Pablo Gómez-Muñoz is Assistant Professor of English and Film at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). His research interests are transnational cinema, science fiction, borders, cosmopolitanism, globalization, precarity, and spectacle. His work has been published in journals such as Geopolitics, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Atlantis and volumes such as Making Sense of Popular Culture and Frontières au Cinéma.

Introduction: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns 1. Systemic Dystopias through a Cosmopolitan Lens: Contesting Global Neoliberalism 2. Greening Apocalypse: Eco-Conscious Disaster and the Biopolitics of Climate Change 3. Love for the Alien Same: Interplanetary Romance and Kinship as Harbingers of Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism 4. The Cosmopolitan Potential of Connections across Time and Space Conclusion