Retrofitting Blade runner : issues in Ridley Scott's Blade runner and Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Print Book, English, ©1991
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, ©1991
Filmand video adaptations
291 pages ; 24 cm
9780879725099, 9780879725105, 0879725095, 0879725109
24020510
[Part 1] : Social implications : Blade runner as thought experiment
The android as Doppelganger / Joseph Francavilla
Technology and politics in the Blade runner dystopia / Judith B. Kerman
Metahuman 'Kipple' or, do male movie makers dream of electric women? : speciesism and sexism in Blade runner / Marleen Barr
Androids as a device for reflection on personhood / Marilyn Gwaltney
[Part 2] : Genre issues : sources and synthesis
The cutting edges of Blade runner / Leonard G. Heldreth
The new eve : the influence of Paradise lost and Frankenstein on Blade runner / David Desser
Entropy, energy, empathy : Blade runner and detective fiction / W. Russel Gray
Philip K. Dick's androids : victimized victimizers / Aaron Barlow
[Part 3] : Film sources and adaptation issues
"There's some of me in you" : Blade runner and the adaptation of science fiction literature into film / Brooks Landon
Philip K. Dick on Blade runner : "they did sight stimulation on my brain" / Gregg Rickman
Race, space and class : the politics of the SF film from Metropolis to Blade runner / David Desser
Primitivism in the movies of Ridley Scott : Alien & Blade runner / C. Carter Colwell
Script to screen : Blade runner in perspective ; Blade runner film notes / William M. Kolb
[Part 4] : Aesthetics and the creation of science fiction worlds
A silver-paper unicorn / Rebecca Warner
Subverting the disaffected city : cityscape in Blade runner / Steve Carper
The music in Blade runner / Andrew Stiller
Creative synergy and the art of world creation / John J. Pierce
Crashing the gates of insight : Blade runner / Jack Boozer, Jr
Bibliography / William M. Kolb