This volume refers to films and TV series, many of which were adapted from literary sources, and some of which have been adapted more than once. Many of these adaptations and sources share titles. To allow the reader to distinguish the various adaptations from one another and from the source material, when adaptation(s) and source are discussed together, the index gives a single combined entry; when adaptation(s) and source are discussed separately, the index gives two entries. Further, many characters appear in multiple forms and texts, and thus appear in the index in their own right.

abjection

, 9

abortion

, 34, 43–44, 54

Alien (Scott, 1979)

, x, 1–2, 8, 37, 40, 44–46, 50, 59, 76–77, 88

Alien 3 (Fincher, 1992)

, 2, 39, 84, 87

Alien: Covenant (Scott, 2017)

, x, 2–7, 10, 31–40, 46–48, 51, 75–78

Alien: Isolation

, 5, 31–36, 49–51

Alien: Resurrection (Jeunet, 1997)

, 2

Aliens (Cameron, 1986)

, 2, 31, 39, 48–49, 88

Aliens: Colonial Marines

, 33n5

Alien, the

facehugger

, 38, 41, 44–47, 78, 84, 88

hammerpede

, 33, 41, 48–49

neomorph

, 5, 33, 40, 46–48

ovomorph

, 46

protomorph

, 5, 33, 44, 47

Queen

, 31–32

trilobite

, 33, 42–44, 83

xenomorph

, ix, 5, 9–10, 32–33, 36, 40, 45n11, 48–50, 70, 74, 78, 88

Alien vs. Predator (Anderson, 2004)

, 71

androids. See robots, androids and replicants

Ash

, 88

authenticity

, 11, 26, 29

autoethnography

, 69–70, 83

baldness

, 49, 70, 82–87

Beowulf

, 50n13

birth. See also motherhood; pregnancy

, ix–xi, 4, 10, 28

artificial wombs

, 54–55

birthmarks

, 41n10

by robots

, xi, 7, 53–68

c-section

, 57

complications of

, 2, 57

male creation. See also scientists, ‘mad’

, 8, 31–51, 65

miraculous

, xi, 2, 60, 68

pain of. See women, pain of

traumatic

, 46, 51, 64

Bishop, Michael

, 39

Black Narcissus (Christensen, 2020/Powell and Pressburger, 1947)

, 86

Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)

, x, 1–5, 8, 56–59, 89

Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017)

, x–xi, 1–2, 5, 8, 11–30

birth in

, 52–68

box office

, 11, 29–31, 68

gender in

, 21–23

production design

, 12, 21

blindness

, 66

Bowie, David

, 27

Burke

, 49

Butler, Judith

, 14

cancer. See also women, medical treatment of

, 33, 49, 69–83

baldness

, 49, 70, 82–87

battle metaphors

, 76

breast

, 61, 70–73, 78, 82

cervical

, 73

chemotherapy

, 48, 70, 77–84, 88

diagnosis of

, ix–xii, 6, 42, 72–73, 76, 88

fertility, impact on

, xi, 7

grey zone lymphoma (GZL)

, 78–79, 88

vomiting

, 72, 83

cannibalism

, 41

capitalism, late

, 1, 29, 59–62, 65, 89

colonisation, interstellar

, xi, 46, 53, 61, 89

COVID-19

, xi–xii, 82, 89

Creed, Barbara

, 9–10

cyberpunk. See science fiction, cyberpunk

cyborg, the. See technology, cyborg, the

Daniels

, 46–47

Darwinism

, 1

David

, 5, 33, 36–50

de Armas, Ana

, 22

de Beauvoir, Simone

, 6, 35, 76

Deckard, Rick

, 25–27, 54–59, 68

disability

, 18, 54

Dracula (Stoker, 1897)

, 42–43

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mamoulian, 1931/Stevenson, 1886)

, 38

duelling

, 3

dystopia. See future worlds

Engineers, the

, 5, 32, 36–40, 44, 47, 74–76

Ex Machina (Garland, 2014)

, 65

Faris

, 47

fatherhood

, ix–x, 4–5, 31–51, 59–68

‘bad dads’

, xi, 31, 37–38, 44–47, 51, 54, 63–65

Odin Allfather

, 54, 65–67

femininity. See also motherhood

, 6, 14, 28, 35

beauty standards

, 13, 18

hyperfemininity

, 15

feminism. See also masculinity, toxic; patriarchy; women

, ix, 2–3, 11, 17, 22–23, 32, 46–49, 63, 69

Ferro

, 48

Fincher, David. See Alien

, 3

Fisher, Mark

, 40

Ford

, 43

Fly, The (Cronenberg, 1986)

, 72

Frankenstein (Shelley, 1818)

, 32, 36–38, 65

Frankenstein (Whale, 1931)

, 38

Freud, Sigmund

, ix, 5, 8–10, 27, 37, 40

future worlds. See also capitalism, late

, 3, 12, 31–33, 39, 46, 67, 89

Game of Thrones (Benioff and Weiss, 2011–2019)

, 41, 64

geek culture

, 11, 26, 29

Gregor the Overlander (Collins, 2003)

, 57

Hallet

, 46

Haraway, Donna

, 16, 67

Harrison, Katherine

, 13–14

heavy metal

, 14, 29, 72

heteronormativity and heterosexuality

, 29, 32, 33n2

Holloway

, 35, 38–39, 42

homosexuality

, 8–9, 15, 17n1, 46

horror

, 1–2, 34, 46, 65

incels (involuntary celibates). See also masculinity, toxic; patriarchy

, 18–20, 55

‘aggrieved entitlement’

, 19, 63

science, misuse of

, 64

infertility. See also technology, reproductive

, 5–7, 35, 48, 51, 60–61, 64

intersectionality

, 4, 22

Japan

, 12

Jaws (Benchley, 1974/Spielberg, 1975)

, 9–10

Joi

, 2, 21–30, 64

Joshi, Lt.

, 2

K

, xi, 22–28, 56–58, 67

Kane

, 72, 75, 78, 88

Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)

, 49

Ledward

, 46

Lemminkäinen

, 47, 58

Lemminkäinen’s Mother

, 47, 50, 58

Les Misérables (Hooper, 2012)

, 85–86

Leto, Jared

, 27n4, 61, 66

Lindelof, Damon

, 38, 44–45

Lopé

, 46

Lorde, Audre

, 70–71

Luv

, 26–27, 56, 63–67

Mariette

, 2, 21, 25–27

Marshall-Green, Logan

, 39

masculinity

, 4–5, 14, 27–29

erectile disfunction

, 16, 36n8

fatherhood. See fatherhood

hypermasculinity

, 15

male gaze, the

, x, 3, 29, 32, 64

phallic imagery

, 47–48

toxic. See also incels

, 3, 18–21, 28, 64

menopause

, 82

menstruation

, 2, 9–10, 36, 82

McArthur, Neil

, 18–21

Miller, Nancy K.

, 69–71, 76–79

military, the

, 18, 55

misogyny. See patriarchy, women living under

motherhood

, ix–xi, 4, 7, 31–51

absent mother

, 49–51, 53–59, 68

archaic mother

, 9–10, 49

as the fulfilment of womanhood

, 3–8

avenging

, 49–51

MU-TH-UR

, 77

myths of

, 33, 50

pregnancy. See pregnancy

Moxyland (Beukes 2008)

, 15

Murphy, Graham

, 23–26, 29, 58–59, 62

Newt

, 49

O’Bannon, David

, 45–46

Oram

, 38, 46–47

Oram, Karine

, 39, 47–48

othering. See also patriarchy; racism

, 22–24, 27, 46–49

parenting. See fatherhood; motherhood

Parker

, 75

patriarchy. See also incels; masculinity, toxic

cinematic reproduction of

, 4, 21, 33, 61, 65

internalised oppression

, 32

women living under

, ix–xi, 1–3, 9, 18, 28, 41, 46–49, 55, 67, 73

Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev 1936)

, 23, 26–28

Peter and the Wolf (Carter 1986)

, 26–28

police, the

, 2, 20, 43

porn. See sex, pornography

pregnancy. See also birth

, x–xi, 2–4, 34, 41, 82

abortion

, 34, 43–44, 54

maternal impressions

, 40–41

morning sickness

, 72

Pris

, 2, 26

Prometheus (Scott, 2012)

, ix–xi, 2–7, 10, 31–45, 49–51, 59–60, 75, 78, 83

special effects

, ix, 33, 48, 51

punk. See also science fiction, cyberpunk

, 12–14

Queen Alien. See Alien, the, Queen

Rachael

, 2, 7, 24–25, 53–58, 67–68

racism

, 20–23, 30, 39, 44, 73

geisha imagery

, 23–24

Latina tropicalism

, 22

slavery

, 62

white supremacy

, 54

rape and sexual assault

, 24–25, 45–47, 87

Raw (Ducournau, 2016)

, 41

Reagle, Joseph

, 11

religion and mythology

Christian

, 60

Egyptian

, 74

Goddess archetype

, 80–81

godhood. See also birth, male creation; scientists, ‘mad’

, 40, 54, 57–59, 65–66

miracles. See birth, miraculous

Norse

, 65–68

nunsx

, 86

Ripley, Amanda

, 32n5, 36, 49–50

Ripley, Ellen

, 31–32, 39, 49–51, 84–88

robots, androids and replicants. See also technology

, 8, 50, 56

giving birth. See birth, by robots

military robots

, 55

prejudice against

, 39

robo-ethics

, xi, 54–55

sex robots

, x, 11, 16–21, 25–26, 29–30, 55

uncanny valley, the

, 40

Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski, 1968)

, 41

Rosenthal

, 48

Sadeghpour, Freysa

, 67–68

science fiction

, ix–x, 3, 29, 32–34, 54

cyberpunk. See also punk

, x, 11–16, 21, 26, 29, 56, 59, 65

scientists

, 57

laboratories

, 38–39

‘mad’. See also fatherhood, ‘bad dads’

, xi, 8, 31, 36–38, 44–47, 51, 54, 63–65

of colour

, 42–43, 73

Scott, Sir Ridley. See also Alien; Blade Runner; Prometheus

, 36n9, 37–38, 46, 59, 70–71, 89

sex. See also rape and sexual assault

celibacy, involuntary. See incels

consent

, 17, 25, 87

heterosexuality

, 33n2

homosexuality

, 8–9, 15, 17n1, 46

infertility. See infertility

infidelity

, 16

masturbation

, 17–18

pornography

, 16–17

sadomasochism

, 32

sexual fantasy

, 25, 32, 51

‘sexual inequality’. See also incels; McArthur, Neil

, 18–20

sexually transmitted infection

, 42

sex robots

, 2, 21

sex toys

, 17

sex workers

, 12, 17, 21, 25, 86

transsexuality

, 18

virginity, notions of

, 16

Shaw, Dr. Elizabethn

, 3–51, 7, 33, 35, 42, 74, 83

Sontag, Susan

, 70–71

Star Wars franchise

, 58

Stelline, Dr. Ana

, 55–56, 60

technology

, 1, 11–15

cyborg, the

, 15, 67

reproductive. See also infertility

, 5, 35

robots. See robots, androids and replicants

Tennessee

, 47

Thing, The (Carpenter, 1982)

, 75–76

transsexuality

, 18

Tyrell, Eldon

, xi, 5, 53–54, 59–66

uncanny valley

, 40

Upworth

, 47

vagina dentata

, ix–xi, 9, 10n6, 45n11, 48

videogames

Aliens: Colonial Marines

, 33n5

Alien: Isolation

, 5, 31–36, 49–51

Villeneuve, Denis

, 12, 21–24, 29

Wagner, Marsden

, 56–57

Wallace, Niander

, xi, 10, 19n3, 27n4, 53, 56, 59–68

Walter

, 39, 46–47

Weaver, Sigourney

, 84–87

Weyland, Peter

, 5, 33, 36–40, 44, 54, 59

women. See also femininity; feminism; motherhood; vagina dentata

gatekeeping of

, 29

geishas

, 23–24

Goddess archetype, the

, 80–81

hatred of. See patriarchy, women living under

islanding of

, 29

medical treatment of. See also birth, traumatic; cancer

, 60, 70–73, 79, 88

mental health of

, 72, 79

of colour

, 4, 22

pain of

, 2–5, 34, 46, 63–64, 70–75, 78–80

policing of

, 11, 14, 26, 29, 43

sexualisation of

, 47–48

sex workers. See sex, sex workers

shepherding of

, 29

suffragettes

, 22

‘symbolic annihilation’ of

, 57

Wrinkle in Time, A (DuVernay, 2018)

, 57–58

xenomorph. See Alien, the, xenomorph

Young, Liam

, 12

Zhora

, 2