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Informationen zum Autor SCOTT BUKATMAN is a cultural theorist and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. His research explores how popular media such as film, comics and animation mediate between new technologies and human perceptual and bodily experience. Klappentext 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 sciencefiction 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. Zusammenfassung Blade Runner has proved to be one of the most enduring and influential films of the 1980s. This new edition of Bukatman's study of Blade Runner is published in the BFI Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by the author and a stunning new jacket design by Paul Pope. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: On Seeing, Science Fiction and Cities Filming Blade Runner The Metropolis Replicants and Mental Life Conclusion Notes Credits Bibliography ...
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On Seeing, Science Fiction and Cities
Filming Blade Runner
The Metropolis
Replicants and Mental Life
Conclusion
Notes
Credits
Bibliography
