Retrofitting Blade Runner

Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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by Judith B. Kerman

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Blade Runner (1982)

Keywords

Ridley Scott, philosophy

Publishing date

1997

Publisher

Bowling Green University Popular Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 340 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-87972-510-9
978-0-87972-510-5

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Book Presentation:
This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner, especially the film’s relationship to its source novel, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film, as well as literary, filmic, technical and aesthetic questions. Contributors discuss the film’s psychological and mythic patterns, importance political issues and the roots of the film in Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, detective fiction, and previous science fiction cinema.

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