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The Blade runner experience : the legacy of a science fiction classic /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 MovieOriginals 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 Romace: 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.