Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism

By presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci—fi film genre’s important critical role in a post—political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post—political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajectories beyond the horizon of the present.
Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt’s thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci...