Contemporary European Science Fiction Cinemas

Aidan Power is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Scholar based in University College Cork, Ireland.

• Part I: Where is Europe? National and European Science Fiction.- 1. Introduction: A Dream Called Rome.- 2. Shaping a European Narrative: Eurimages, SF and the Auteur.- 3. Science Fiction in the EU’s Newest Member States.- Part II: Contagion! Responding to the Financial Crisis.- 4. PIIGS to the Slaughter.- 5. PIIGS to the Slaughter II.- Part III: Shut the Gates! Scorched Earth, Fortress Continent.- 6. Climate Change, The Anthropocene, and European SF.- 7. Multiculturalism and the Changing Face of Europe.- Part IV: Another Planet: Hollywood SF Production in Europe.- 8. European SF and Hollywood.- Part V: Beyond Europe?.- 9. Conclusions and Roads Ahead.