Sonja Fritzsche, The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film by Alice Ray

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From Independence Day to Land of Plenty: Screening American Patriotism from German Émigré Perspectives before and after 9/11 by Frank Mehring

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Nous venons en paix : l’immigration dans les films de science-fiction après la Guerre Froide by Samantha Kountz

“…This article will examine the representations of race, class and gender in relation to the theme of immigration in some Hollywood science fiction films but also the responses of sf films from Mexico and South Africa. …”
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De la bibliothèque au « Tesseract » : une représentation borgésienne de la littérature dans le film de Christopher Nolan Interstellar (2014)  by Emmanuel Buzay

“…In addition to the reading paths that many of the works in this library suggest, the imaginary of mediation through books also plays an essential function in the world sketched out by this science fiction film. Because it is decisive for understanding the way in which the library, as a memory of the world, rethinks humanity, its mutations, and its limits in a journey through time, the constant represented by the figure of the “book in the film” reveals a double identity which, although based on scientific knowledge, nonetheless reactivates an immemorial imaginary with its mythologies. …”
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Quelle(s) singularité(s) des imaginaires urbains de la fiction climatique au cinéma ? by Pierre‑Jacques Olagnier

“…The analysis of the still limited place of climate fiction in cinema, followed by an examination of the use of urban representations in a corpus of science fiction films, both within and outside the cinematic narrative, shows that there does not seem to be a radical break between the urban imaginaries of Cli‑Fi and those of science fiction in general.…”
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Thinking Mythologically: Black Hawk Down, the “Platoon Movie,” and the War of Choice in Iraq by Richard Slotkin

“…That myth was discredited by defeat in Vietnam; but starting in 1980, American war films, and war-themed science fiction films, seconded the work of neo-conservative policy makers to recuperate the “war imaginary.” …”
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