The book examines the difficulty of adapting from one screen medium to another by looking at both successful and unsuccessful efforts in the area of science fiction. Those difficult efforts at moving from film to TV and from TV to film reveal much about the technologies involved and this highly technological genre as well.

Introduction: Across the Screens: Adaptation, Boundaries, and Science Fiction Film and Television, J. P. Telotte I: Cross-Screen Dynamics 1. Domesticating Space: Science Fiction Serials Come Home, Cynthia J. Miller 2. The Cinematic Zone of The Twilight Zone, J. P. Telotte 3. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Big-Screen Spectacle and Compressed Television Images, Mary Pharr II: Case Studies: Film to Television 4. Finding Sanctuary: Adapting Logan's Run to Television, Gerald Duchovnay 5. Stargate SG-1 and the Visualization of the Imagination, Sherryl Vint 6. She's Just a Girl: A Cyborg Passes in The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Lorrie Palmer III: Case Studies: Television to Film 7. Star Trek and the Birth of a Film Franchise, M. Keith Booker 8. "I want to believe the truth is out there": The X-Files and the Impossibility of Knowing, Rodney F. Hill 9. Serenity, Genre, and Cinematization, J. P. Telotte IV: Issues in Science Fiction Adaptation 10. Doctor Who: Adaptations and Flows, Mark Bould 11. Déjà Vu All Over Again? Cowboy Bebop's Transformation to the Big Screen, Michelle Onley Pirkle 12. Fan Films, Adaptations, and Media Literacy, Chuck Tryon Notes on Contributors Videography/Filmography