| Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Contributor(s): Kerman, Judith B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879725109 ISBN-13: 9780879725105 Publisher: Popular Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Dewey: 791.437 |
| LCCN: 90-086268 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.4" W x 8.88" (1.00 lbs) 340 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |