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  • Index to volume 8
Articles
Engstrom, Maria, The scent of a former life: the Czech adaptation of the Strugatskiis’ story The Kid 179
Fitzgerald, Jon and Philip Hayward, Mountain airs, mockingjays and modernity: songs and their significance in The Hunger Games 75
Howell, Yvonne, From ‘sots-romanticism’ to rom-com: the Strugatskiis’ Monday Begins on Saturday as a film comedy 127
Khagi, Sofya, Genre film, spectacle and the Strugatskii brothers in Fyodor Bondarchuk’s The Inhabited Island 199
Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa, ‘The machine is nothing without the woman’: Gender, humanity and the cyborg body in the original and reimagined Bionic Woman 53
Maguire, Muireann and Andrei Rogatchevski, Introduction: filming the Strugatskiis 123
Maguire, Muireann, Back to the future in Arkanar: the Strugatskiis, Aleksei German Sr and the problem of injustice in Hard to Be a God 233
McHugh, Kathleen, Seeking a film for the end of the world 297
McQueen, Sean, Antiviral: capitalism of the fourth kind 29
Naripea, Eva and Henriette Cederlof, Genre and gender in The Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979) 145
Ransom, Amy J., The future of Quebec in sf film and television 1
Rogatchevski, Andrei, Loyalty by obfuscation: Aleksandr Sokurov’s Dni zatmeniia vs the Strugatskii brothers’ A Billion Years before the End of the World 167
Schmeink, Lars, Frankenstein’s offspring: practicing science and parenthood in Natali’s Splice 343
Schwartz, Matthias, Observing the imperial gaze: on Peter Fleischmann’s Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein 219
Telotte, J.P., Sex and machines: the ‘buzz’ of 1950s science fiction films 371
Tsymbal, Evgenii, Tarkovsky and the Strugatskii brothers: the prehistory of Stalker 255
Young, Mark, Xenochrony: aural media and neoliberal time in Shane Carruth’s Primer 321
Archive
Brown, Shane, Pushing Boundaries? Challenging traditional gender roles in Kyle XY 91
Review essay
Evans, Taylor, Racing the future 387
Book reviews
Ginn, Sherry, Buckman, Alyson R. and Porter, Heather M., eds, Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity (Stacey Abbott) 397
Hairston, Andrea, Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays (Rubén Mendoza) 402
Huss, John, ed., Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike (Stina Attebery) 279
Langer, Jessica, Postcolonialism and Science Fiction (Paweł Frelik) 280
Miller, Cynthia J., and Riper, A. Bowdoin Van, eds, 1950s ‘Rocketman’ TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men (James Chapman) 104
Tucker, Aaron, Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Culture (Grace Halden) 407
Yost, Kimberly, From Starship Captains to Galactic Rebels: Leaders in Science Fiction Television (Katie Moylan) 101
DVD reviews
After Earth (Stefan Hall) 107
Man of Steel (William Proctor) 290
Perfect Sense (Christopher Cokinos) 411
Real Humans (Aino-Kaisa Koistinen) 414
Riddick (Eric Buscemi) 111
RoboCop (Nick Jones) 418
The Avengers (Dylan Bateman) 285
The Rover (Graham Hall) 422
The Wolverine (Susan A. George) 117
The Zero Theorem (Matthew Cheney) 426
Upstream Color (Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg) 114

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