The Blade Runner Experience : : The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic /

The Blade Runner Experience : : The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic / / ed. by Will Brooker.

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Since its release in 1982, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, has remained a cult classic through its depiction of a futuristic Los Angeles; its complex, enigmatic plot; and its underlying questions about the nature of human i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Alessio, Dominic,
Atkins, Barry,
Barlow, Aaron,
Brooker, Peter,
Brooker, Will,
Gray, Christy,
Gray, Jonathan,
Hills, Matt,
Jermyn, Deborah,
Kerman, Judith B.,
Lacey, Nick,
Redmond, Sean,
Rowley, Stephen,
Tosca, Susana P.,
HerausgeberIn:
Brooker, Will,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 6 b&w
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • EDITOR'S NOTE
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION: 2019 VISION
  • THE BLADE RUNNER EXPERIENCE: PILGRIMAGE AND LIMINAL SPACE
  • POST-MILLENNIUM BLADE RUNNER
  • SECTION 1: THE CINEMA OF PHILIP K. DICK
  • REEL TOADS AND IMAGINARY CITIES: PHILIP K. DICK, BLADE RUNNER AND THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE
  • REDEMPTION, 'RACE', RELIGION, REALITY AND THE FAR-RIGHT: SCIENCE FICTION FILM ADAPTATIONS OF PHILIP K. DICK
  • SECTION 2: PLAYING BLADE RUNNER
  • REPLICATING THE BLADE RUNNER
  • IMPLANTED MEMORIES, OR THE ILLUSION OF FREE ACTION
  • SECTION 3: FANS
  • SCANNING THE REPLICANT TEXT
  • ACADEMIC TEXTUAL POACHERS: BLADE RUNNER AS CULT CANONICAL MOVIE
  • ORIGINALS AND COPIES: THE FANS OF PHILIP K. DICK, BLADE RUNNER AND K. W. JETER
  • SECTION 4: IDENTITIES
  • THE RACHEL PAPERS: IN SEARCH OF BLADE RUNNER'S FEMME FATALE
  • PURGE! CLASS PATHOLOGY IN BLADE RUNNER
  • POSTMODERN ROMANCE: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF (DE)CENTRING THE SELF
  • SECTION 5: THE CITY
  • FALSE LA: BLADE RUNNER AND THE NIGHTMARE CITY
  • IMAGINING THE REAL: BLADE RUNNER AND DISCOURSES ON THE POSTMETROPOLIS
  • FILMOGRAPHY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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