"By an examination of such early work as Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon and Fritz Lang's Metropolis, to Don Siegel's 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and contemporary films like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, adn Andrei Tarkovski's Solaris, plus perceptive interviews with directors Lang and Siegel, this volume offers a basic reevaluation of science fiction on the screen. Illustrated with over fifty photographs to provide a visual survey of memorable science fiction images, the uniquely sensuous appeal of the genre is impressively captured. "--Cover.