The Blade Runner Experience

The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic

By: Will Brooker (Editor)

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Paperback | 21 February 2006 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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2.39 x 1.67 x 0.14

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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.

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'More than twenty years after the film's release, this intelligent and inventive collection of essays demonstrates that the plot, themes and aesthetics of Blade Runner have had a particularly vital afterlife, reaching across media to fan culture, academic discourse, computer games and published sequels. The authors treat the film as one part of an extended text for which the film is sometimes only a pre-text. Taken as a whole, the book represents a rich intersection of film analysis with more recent topics in media studies. It should become a valuable part of a media studies curriculum.' Scott Bukatman, Stanford University, author of Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction and the BFI 'Modern Classic' on Blade Runner 'Once upon a time Blade Runner was simply a film that slowly became moderately popular. Decades later, these new essays richly chart cultural and academic territories in which that film has nevertheless become a focus and a force in its own right.' Dave Hipple, University of Reading

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