Research Catalog

Title

Blade runner / Scott Bukatman.

Author

Bukatman, Scott, 1957-

Publication

London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

British Film Institute

Description

112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 19 cm.

Summary

"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..."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

BFI film classics

Uniform Title

BFI film classics.

Subject

• Blade runner
• Blade runner (Motion picture)
• Motion pictures > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-112).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Filming Blade Runner -- 2. Metropolis -- 3. Replicants and Mental Life.

ISBN

• 9781844575220 (pbk.)
• 1844575225 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012462582

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library