Blade Runner
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Author |
: Paul M. Sammon |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 467 |
Release |
: 1996-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061053146 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061053147 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by : Paul M. Sammon
The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.
Author |
: K. W. Jeter |
Publisher |
: Spectra |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2000-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780553762679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0553762672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blade Runner 2 by : K. W. Jeter
In 1982 the brilliant science fiction movie Blade Runner was released, and a phenomenon was born. Set in the steel-and-microchip jungle of twenty-first century Los Angeles, this masterpiece re-created our vision of the future, telling the story of Rick Deckard, a ‘blade runner’ who tracks down and executes renegade androids. Now, for the millions of fans of the movie, as well as those coming to the saga for the first time, K. W. Jeter’s stylish and sophisticated new novel reenters that seedy, high-tech world and opens a new chapter of thrilling, nonstop, futuristic suspense. This time Deckard himself becomes both hunter and hunted in a race to prove his own humanity by tracking down the most elusive and dangerous android of all . . .
Author |
: Judith Kerman |
Publisher |
: Popular Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0879725109 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780879725105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Retrofitting Blade Runner by : Judith Kerman
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? The film's implications as a thought experiment provide a starting point for important thinking about the moral issues implicit in a hypertechnological society. Yet its importance in the history of science fiction and science fiction film rests equally on it mythically and psychologically resonant creation of compelling characters and an exciting story within a credible science fiction setting. These 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, important political issues and the roots of the film in Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, detective fiction, and previous science fiction cinema.
Author |
: Will Brooker |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 2006-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231501798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 023150179X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Blade Runner Experience by : Will Brooker
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.
Author |
: Megan De Kantzow |
Publisher |
: Pascal Press |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1740201345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781740201346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Blade Runner: the Director's Cut Directed by Ridley Scott by : Megan De Kantzow
Author |
: Philip K. Dick |
Publisher |
: Del Rey |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345350473 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345350472 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blade Runner by : Philip K. Dick
Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers, while bounty hunter Rick Deckard sets out to track down the replicants. Reissue. (Tie-in to the Fall 2007 release of the deluxe twenty-fifth anniversary DVD of the Warner Bros. film, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and others) (Science Fiction)
Author |
: Amy Coplan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2015-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136231452 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136231455 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blade Runner by : Amy Coplan
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human beings and ‘replicants’ is blurred, the film raises a host of philosophical questions about what it is to be human, the possibility of moral agency and freedom in ‘created’ life forms, and the capacity of cinema to make a genuine contribution to our engagement with these kinds of questions. This volume of specially commissioned chapters systematically explores and addresses these issues from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful introduction, the seven chapters examine the following questions: How is the theme of death explored in Blade Runner and with what implications for our understanding of the human condition? What can we learn about the relationship between emotion and reason from the depiction of the ‘replicants’ in Blade Runner? How are memory, empathy, and moral agency related in Blade Runner? How does the style and ‘mood’ of Blade Runner bear upon its thematic and philosophical significance? Is Blade Runner a meditation on the nature of film itself? Including a brief biography of the director and a detailed list of references to other writings on the film, Blade Runner is essential reading for students – indeed anyone - interested in philosophy and film studies. Contributors: Colin Allen, Peter Atterton, Amy Coplan, David Davies, Berys Gaut, Stephen Mulhall, C. D. C. Reeve.
Author |
: Scott Bukatman |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 119 |
Release |
: 2019-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781838714543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1838714545 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blade Runner by : Scott Bukatman
Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk vision of urban life in the twenty-first century. With replicants on the run, the rain-drenched Los Angeles which Blade Runner imagines is a city of oppression and enclosure, but a city in which transgression and disorder can always erupt. Graced by stunning sets, lighting, effects, costumes and photography, Blade Runner succeeds brilliantly in depicting a world at once uncannily familiar and startlingly new. In his innovative and nuanced reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes following its release in 1982. He situates the film in terms of debates about postmodernism, which have informed much of the criticism devoted to it, but argues that its tensions derive also from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city – as a space both imprisoning and liberating. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Bukatman suggests that Blade Runner 's visual complexity allows it to translate successfully to the world of high definition and on-demand home cinema. He looks back to the science fiction tradition of the early 1980s, and on to the key changes in the 'final' version of the film in 2007, which risk diminishing the sense of instability created in the original.
Author |
: Timothy Shanahan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2019-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429862496 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429862490 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blade Runner 2049 by : Timothy Shanahan
Widely acclaimed upon its release as a future classic, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is visually stunning, philosophically profound, and a provocative extension of the story in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Containing specially commissioned chapters by a roster of international contributors, this fascinating collection explores philosophical questions that abound in Blade Runner 2049, including: What distinguishes the authentically "human" person? How might natality condition one’s experience of being-in-the-world? How might shared memories feature in the constitution of personal identities? What happens when created beings transcend the limits intended in their design? What (if anything) is it like to be a hologram? Can artificial beings participate in genuinely romantic relationships? How might developing artificial economics impact our behaviour as prosumers? What are the implications of techno-human enhancement in an era of surveillance capitalism? Including a foreword by Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, film studies, philosophy of mind, psychology, gender studies, and conceptual issues in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
Author |
: Calum Neill |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2020-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030567545 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030567540 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049 by : Calum Neill
This book provides a collection of Lacanian responses to Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 from leading theorists in the field. Like Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner film, its sequel is now poised to provoke philosophical and psychoanalytic arguments, and to provide illustrations and inspiration for questions of being and the self, for belief and knowledge, the human and the post-human, amongst others. This volume forms the vanguard of responses from a Lacanian perspective, satisfying the hunger to extend the theoretical considerations of the first film in the various new directions the second film invites. Here, the contributors revisit the implications of the human-replicant relationship but move beyond this to consider issues of ideology, politics, and spectatorship. This exciting collection will appeal to an educated film going public, in addition to students and scholars of Lacanian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, film theory, philosophy and applied psychoanalysis.