The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic
by Brooker, WillFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-02-15
Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr
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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 com-pares to the present-day Los Angeles; and it revisits the film to pose surprising new questions about its characters and their world.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : 2019 vision | p. 1 |
| The Blade runner experience : pilgrimage and liminal space | p. 11 |
| Post-millennium Blade runner | p. 31 |
| Reel toads and imaginary cities : Phillip K. Dick, Blade runner and the contemporary science fiction movie | p. 43 |
| Redemption, 'race', religion, reality and the far-right : science fiction film adaptations of Philip K. Dick | p. 59 |
| Replicating the Blade runner | p. 79 |
| Implanted memories, or the illusion of free action | p. 92 |
| Scanning the replicant text | p. 111 |
| Academic textual poachers : Blade runner as cult canonical movie | p. 124 |
| Originals and copies : the fans of Phillip K. Dick, Blade runner and K. W. Jeter | p. 142 |
| The Rachel papers : in search of Blade runner's femme fatale | p. 159 |
| Purge! : class pathology in Blade runner | p. 173 |
| Postmodern romance : the impossibility of (de)centering the self | p. 190 |
| False LA : Blade runner and the nightmare city | p. 203 |
| Imagining the real : Blade runner and discourses on the postmetropolis | p. 213 |
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