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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 6 b&wContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781904764304
  • 9780231501798
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4372
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 identity. The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic examines the film in a broad context, examining its relationship to the original novel, the PC game, the series of sequels, and the many films influenced by its style and themes. It investigates Blade Runner online fandom and asks how the film's future city compares to the present-day Los Angeles, and it revisits the film to pose surprising new questions about its characters and their world.
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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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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 identity. The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic examines the film in a broad context, examining its relationship to the original novel, the PC game, the series of sequels, and the many films influenced by its style and themes. It investigates Blade Runner online fandom and asks how the film's future city compares to the present-day Los Angeles, and it revisits the film to pose surprising new questions about its characters and their world.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

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