EDITORIAL REMARKS

   
BATYA WEINBAUM Announcing a Few Changes xi
PATRICIA MELZER AND SHELLEY PRICE Editorial Introduction to "Gender and Technology in Science Fiction Film” xv

 

  

CRITICISM

   

ALBERT ANTHONY

Menacing Technologies: Counterfeit Women and the Mutability of Nature in Science Fiction Cinema

1

MARK BOULD

 

Taking the Dream Girls Apart: Molly, Eve VIII, Barb Wire

18

CATHY HAWKINS

I Married a Mysogynist from Outer Space:The Challenge of Being a Bride in 1950s Science Fiction Film.

37

PATRICIA MELZER

There Is No Spoon: Concepts o Subjectivity in The Matrix.

 67

JEFFREY MIDDENTS

This Is Not Film: Ef/facing the Screen in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days

95

K. SURKAN.

I Want To Be a Real Boy: A.I. Robots, Cyborgs, and Mutants as Passing Figures in Science Fiction Film

114
   

ART

 

    

BETH BLINEBURY

Cyborg Bodies: How to Read theBody

 137
   

POETRY

   
SHELLEY PRICE

Animus Mundi. Alien, Wormhole, Golem

144
   

FILM REVIEW

 

  
MICHELLE RENEE MATISONS

The Cyber-Genius Hysterical Mother and the Techno-Virgin/Man's Man: Thoughts on Cronenberg's eXistnZ

151
   

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

    
PATRICIA MELZER AND SHELLEY PRICE. Gender and Technology in Science Fiction Film. 157
   

GENERAL CRITICISM

    
GERALDINE WOJNO KIEFER Celebrations, Overlays, Matrices: Making Art in the Textures of Collage. 160
MARK BOULD

Gwyneth Jones: An Introduction.

190
MARK BOULD Incredible Stories about Ordinary People: the Teenage Fiction of Gwyneth Jones/Ann Halam 197
ANDREW BUTLER Going Up Hill: An Interview with Gwyneth Jones 216
ISTAN CSICSERY-RONAY JR. The Lost Child: Notes on White Queen 234
     
REVIEWS    
TARA BETTS Brown Girl in the Ring 254
BARBARA J. COOK Myth and Ritual in Women's Detective Fiction 257
JANICE C. CROSBY Feminist Cabalism 101 260
GERARDO T. CUMMINGS Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction 263
ELIZABETH L. P. BRIGGS Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature 267
G.WARLOCK VANCE Images of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Shape Culture (1818-1918) 271
JANICE M. BOGSTAD Critical Theory and Science Fiction 274
THERESA A.L. CRATER Cauldron of Changes: Feminist Spirituality in Fantastic Fiction 279
PAUL EROS A Different Lens: Gender Studies and the Inklings 283
DIONA SHAW Communities of the Heart 287
DIONA SHAW Chicana Ways 290
BRUCE GEHIERE Spiritual Syncretism, Innovation in the Speculative Realm and Radio Theater 293