Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Judith Kerman Popular Press, 1991 - 291 páginas 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? The film's implications as a thought experiment provide a starting point for important thinking about the moral issues implicit in a hypertechnological society. Yet its importance in the history of science fiction and science fiction film rests equally on it mythically and psychologically resonant creation of compelling characters and an exciting story within a credible science fiction setting. These 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, important political issues and the roots of the film in Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, detective fiction, and previous science fiction cinema. |
Índice
Judith B Kerman | 3 |
Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia | 16 |
Metahuman Kipple Or Do Male Movie | 25 |
Androids as a Device for Reflection on Personhood | 32 |
SOURCES AND SYNTHESIS | 40 |
The Influence of Paradise Lost | 53 |
Victimized Victimizers | 76 |
FILM SOURCES AND ADAPTATION ISSUES | 90 |
The Music in Blade Runner | 196 |
Blade Runner | 212 |
Bibliography | 229 |
Bibliography Addendum | 273 |
Reconstructing the Directors Cut | 294 |
Blade Runner Credits | 302 |
Memories Youre Talkin About Memories | 308 |
314 | |
The Politics of | 110 |
Blade Runner Film Notes | 154 |
A SilverPaper Unicorn | 178 |
Contributors | 330 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip ... Judith Kerman Vista de fragmentos - 1991 |
Términos y frases comunes
adaptation Alien American androids Androids Dream Angeles animals apartment appears audience Batty become beginning Blade Runner building called characters created credits critics David death Deckard detective Dick Dick's double effects Electric emotions fact Fancher fear feel figure film film's final forces Ford future Gaff genre going hand human human than human Interview July June kill later Leon live look Lost machine means memories moral movie nature never notes novel opening original person Philip play political possible Pris problem production question Rachael release replicants Review Ridley says scene science fiction Scott screen screenplay script Sebastian seems seen sense Sheep shot society stills story street suggests tells things turn Tyrell unicorn vision visual Warner Bros York