Tobias Hochscherf is a professor of audio-visual media at University of Applied Sciences in Kiel, Germany. His research on European film and television culture has been widely published. James Leggott is a senior lecturer in film and television studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He has published on various aspects of British film and television culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: British Science Fiction Beyond the TARDIS

TOBIAS HOCHSCHERF and JAMES LEGGOTT

1. H.G. Wells and Science Fiction Cinema

JAMES CHAPMAN

2. Aftermaths: Post-Apocalyptic Imagery

CHRISTIAN HOFFSTADT and DOMINIK SCHREY

3. The BBC Versus "Science Fiction": The Collision of Transnational Genre and National Identity in Television of the Early 1950s

DEREK JOHNSTON

4. Hammer Horror and Science Fiction

DAVID SIMMONS

5. Robert Fuest and The Final Programme: Science Fiction and the Question of Style

MICHAEL DU PLESSIS

6. "Anything Can Happen in the Next Half-Hour": Gerry Anderson's Transnational Science Fiction

JONATHAN BIGNELL

7. Tracking UFO: Format, Text and Context

PETER HUTCHINGS

8. A Clockwork Orange, Exploitation and the Art Film

I.Q. HUNTER

9. Visions of an English Dystopia: History, Technology and the Rural Landscape in The Tripods

LINCOLN GERAGHTY

10. The Future of History in Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus

CHRISTINE SPRENGLER

11. Expatriate! Expatriate! Doctor Who: The Movie and Commercial Negotiation of a Multiple Text

PETER WRIGHT

12. Invasion of the Brit-Snatchers: National Identity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

AIDAN POWER

13. A Cosy Catastrophe: Genre, National Cinema, and Fan Responses to 28 Days Later

BRIGID CHERRY

14. Desiring the Doctor: Identity, Gender and Genre in Online Fandom

REBECCA WILLIAMS

15. Invaders from Space, Time Travel and Omnisexuality: The Multi-Layered Narrative of Torchwood

LEE BARRON

Chapter Notes

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