Retrofitting Blade runner: issues in Ridley Scott's Blade runner and Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep?

1991; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 29; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.29-2015

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

Judith B. Kerman,

Tópico(s)

Cinema and Media Studies

Resumo

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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