Introduction: Marxism and Science Fiction Cinema / Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia -- First Contact or Primal Scene: Communism Meets Real Socialism Meets Capitalism in Early Czechoslovak Science Fiction Cinema / Petra Hanáková -- Soviet and Post-Soviet Images of Capitalism: Ideological Fissures in Marek Piestrak's Polish-Estonian Coproductions / Eva Näripea -- Paying Freedom Dues: Marxism, Black Radicalism, and Blaxploitation Science Fiction / Mark Bould -- The Biopolitics of Globalization in Damir Lukacevic's Transfer / Sherryl Vint -- Capitalism and Wasted Lives in District 9 and Elysium / Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia -- Marxism vs. Postmodernism: The Case of The Matrix / Tony Burns -- Representation of "Gaming Capitalism" in Avalon and Gamer / Ewa Mazierska -- Remote Exploitations: Alex Rivera's Materialist SF Cinema in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism / Alfredo Suppia -- Rags and Revolution: Visions of the Lumpenproletariat in Latin American Zombie Films / Mariano Paz.