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Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He also serves on the editorial board of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Intellect), Director of the horror cinema research group "Grite," and Director of the Spanish horror studies series "Terror: Estudios Críticos" (Universidad de Cádiz).

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This book examines the often-complex relationships between issues of gender and the environment in science fiction films and fiction. Its contributors discuss a range of texts: early apocalyptic science fiction, campy midcentury science fiction films, Silver Age superhero comics, and twenty-first-century science fiction films and literature.

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Part One: Performing Humanity, Animality, and Gender

Chapter One: Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s Wom-Animal Creature Features

Bridgitte Barclay

Chapter Two: "Either you're mine or you're not mine": Controlling Gender, Nature, and Technology in Her and Ex Machina

Christy Tidwell

Chapter Three: Octavia Butler and the Language of the Flesh: Re-Writing Nature in Wild Seed

Amelia Z. Greene

Part Two: Gendering the Natural World

Chapter Four: Tendrils, Tentacles, and Flower Power: Speciesism in Womaneater (1958) and The Gardener (1974)

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Juvé

Chapter Five: "So Very Natural an Occurrence": Engendering Nature's Antagonism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man

Steve Asselin

Part Three: Contemporary Queering

Chapter Six: Engineered Nature, (En)gendered Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312

Tyler Harper

Chapter Seven: Ecologies of Sound: Queer Intimacy, Trans-Corporeality, and Reproduction in

Upstream Color

Stina Attebery

Part Four: "We Don't Need Another Hero"

Chapter Eight: Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age Comics

Jill E. Anderson

Chapter Nine: Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-E

Michelle Yates

Chapter Ten: Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum?

Carter Soles