• 1. Dali and Lacan
  
• 2. Atlas from the Id
  

IV. Domestic Architecture

• A. Architecture and the American Imagination
  
  • 1. Utopian Theory: The Machine in the Garden
    
  • 2. Technology and Paradise in Design
  
  
• B. Post-War American Architecture
  
  • 1. Utopian Theory: The Suburbs as Middle Landscape
    
  • 2. "Scientific Method" and Modern Design
    
  • 3. Dystopian Theory: The Space Race and Dehumanization
  
  
• C. The Ranch House on Altair IV
  
  • 1. Envisioning the Future through the Present
    
  • 2. Robby in Domestic Space

V. Narrative and Sexual Difference

• A. Introduction
  
  • 1. Approaching the Text
    
  • 2. Detectives in Space
  
  
• B. Hermeneutics and Sexuality
  
  • 1. The Movie Poster
    
  • 2. Robby as Suspect
    
  • 3. Altašs Entrance
    
  • 4. Garden/Jungle
  
  
• C. Monster Confusion
  
  • 1. Competing Enigmas
    
  • 2. The Feminine Threat
    
  • 3. The Disavowed Monster
    
  • 4. An Alternate Reading

VI. Textual Syntheses: Prosperošs Rome in Outer Space

• A. Bellerophonšs Fall
  
• B. A Techno-Tempest

VII. Music

• A. "Electronic Tonalities" and Classical Hollywood
  
• B. Barrons: Affect and the "Tools of Science"
  
• C. Tonalities in the Text: Threat and Promise

VIII. Popular Reception

• A. 1956 Reception
  
• B. A Retrospective Look
  
• C. FORBIDDEN PLANET as Camp

IX. Appendices

• A. Production Credits
  
• B. Plot Summary
  
• C. Segmentation