Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bodies in space : film as "carnal knowledge" (1969) / Annette Michelson -- Typewriter (1986) / Friedrich Kittler -- Alien and the monstrous-feminine (1990) / Barbara Creed -- Scary women : cinema, surgery, and special effects (1999) / Vivian Sobchack -- Connected; or what it means to live in the network society (2003) / Steven Shaviro -- Gendering the technological imagination (2011) / Anne Balsamo -- Bloodless transfusion (1991) / Manuel De Landa -- Transplant medicine and transformative narrative ( 2004) / Susan Squier -- Bioinformatic bodies and the problem of "life itself" (2005) / Eugene Thacker -- A monstrous vision : Disney, science fiction, ad CinemaScope (2008) / J.P. Telotte -- Have nanosuit : will travel : video games and the crisis of the digital battlefield (2010) / Colin Milburn -- Practising media archaeology : creative methodologies for remediation (2012) / Jussi Parikka -- The "videology" of science fiction (1985) / Garrett Stewart -- The cinema of attraction : early film, its spectator and the avant-garde (1986) / Tom Gunning -- The ecstasy of communication (1988) / Jean Baudrillard (translated by John Johnston) -- On a clar day you can see the horizon of invisibility : rethinking science fiction film in the age of electronic (re)production (1992) / Brooks Landon -- The wonder years and beyond, 1989-1995 (2002) / Michelle Pierson -- The cultural ogic of media convergence (2004) / Henry Jenkins -- A cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century (1991) / Donna Haraway -- The life cycle of cyborgs : writing the posthuman (1995) / N. Katherine Hayles -- The image virus (1993) / Scott Bukatman -- Meta(l)morphoses (1997) / Rosi Braidotti -- The transmolecularization of (black) folk : Space is the Place, Sun Ra and Afrofuturism (2004) / Nabeel Zuberi -- When the machines stop : fantasy, reality, and terminal identity in Neon Genesis : Evangelion and Serial Experiments : Lain (2007) / Susan J. Napier.