Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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."

Author: Judith B. Kerman
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.40w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780879725105
ISBN10: 0879725109
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy