Intro; Prologue: The Overlords Have Landed; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Part I: Where Is Europe? National and European Science Fiction; Chapter 1: Introduction: ADream Called Rome; A Pragmatic Utopia; Which Europe?; Why Science Fiction?; Definitions andOther Likely Bones ofContention; A Growing Body ofWork; Five Parts, Nine Chapters; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Shaping aEuropean Narrative: Eurimages, SF, andtheAuteur; Eurimages: AnIntegrationist Model; Officially Sanctioned European SF; Time oftheWolf; Melancholia; Iron Sky; Funding theDream; Bibliography
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9/11 andtheDecline ofUS HegemonyGoing onHoliday by Mistake: 28 Days Later; Welcome toLondon: 28 Weeks Later; The Return oftheLocal; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part V: Beyond Europe?; Chapter 9: Conclusions andRoads Ahead; Omissions andPartial Histories; Moving Forward; Bibliography; Index
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A Rock ontheEdge ofEurope: SF andtheIrish Film IndustrySeeking Solace inthePast; Precarity andtheCommodification ofItalian Social Life; Backdrop; Perpetual Transition/Zero Prospects; Aliens Are Us; Bibliography; Chapter 5: PIIGS totheSlaughter II; Dead Ends andGreek Tragedies; An International Affair; Anthropomorphism andNosebleeds; Permanent Supervision; Panic, Subnationalism, andMale Futures inSpain; Financial Paralysis andSubnationalism; Male Futures; Bibliography; Part III: Shut the Gates! Scorched Earth, Fortress Continent
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Chapter 3: SF intheEU's Newest Member StatesBulgaria; Croatia; A Bleached Europe; Hungary; A Question ofPurity; White Christian Identity; Europa; Lithuania; A Dialogue withEuropean Modernism; Modernist Cinema andtheUncanny; An Interstitial State ofBeing; Bibliography; Part II: Contagion! Responding to the Financial Crisis; Chapter 4: PIIGS totheSlaughter; Punishing thePeripheries; Institutional Weaknesses; Saving theSystem: Neoliberal Europe; A Crucial Mutation; Eat theYoung: Generational Conflict andtheHollowing Outof thePortuguese State; An SF Rarity
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Chapter 6: Climate Change, theAnthropocene, andEuropean SFA Looming Catastrophe; The Anthropocene: AScience Fictional Catastrophe; Systemic Failure; The Age ofStupid; Metropia; Scorched Earths; The Quiet Hour; Hell; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Multiculturalism andtheChanging Face ofEurope; A Qualified Inclusiveness; Paris; From Paris toDetroit andBack Again; Rehabilitating Whiteness; London; Third World London; One District, Two Worlds; Gentrify theBlock; Bibliography; Part IV: Another Planet: Hollywood SF Production in Europe; Chapter 8: European SF andHollywood
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Contemporary European science fiction cinemas.
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9783319898261
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Science fiction films-- Europe-- History and criticism.