| Description |
x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-244) and index. |
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Includes filmography: pages 225-229. |
| Contents |
Introduction : 2019 vision / Will Brooker -- The Blade runner experience : pilgrimage and liminal space / Will Brooker -- Post-millennium Blade runner / Judith B. Kerman -- Section 1. The cinema of Philip K. Dick -- Reel toads and imaginary cities : Philip K. Dick, Blade runner and the contemporary science fiction movie / Aaron Barlow -- Redemption, 'race', religion, reality and the far-right : science fiction film adaptations of Philip K. Dick / Dominic Alessio -- Section 2. Playing Blade runner -- Replicating the Blade runner / Barry Atkins -- Implanted memories, or the illusion of free action / Susana P. Tosca -- Section 3. Fans -- Scanning the replicant text / Jonathan Gray -- Academic textual poachers : Blade runner as cult canonical movie / Matt Hills -- Originals and copies : the fans of Philip K. Dick, Blade runner and K.W. Jeter / Christy Gray -- Section 4. Identities -- The Rachel papers : in search of Blade runner's femme fatale / Deborah Jermyn -- Purge! Class pathology in Blade runner / Sean Redmond -- Postmodern romance : the impossibility of (de)centring the self / Nick Lacey -- Part 5. The city -- False LA : Blade runner and the nightmare city / Stephen Rowley -- Imagining the real : Blade runner and discourses on the postmetropolis / Peter Brooker. |
| Subject |
Blade runner (Motion picture)
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Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Brooker, Will, 1970-
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| ISBN |
1904764304 paperback |
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9781904764304 paperback |
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1904764312 cased |
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9781904764311 cased |
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