Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably ''the greatest science fiction film''. By contextualizing the film within the culture of late 20th and early 21st-century capitalism, Flisfeder provides a valuable guide for both students and scholars interested in learning more about one of the most significant, influential, and controversial concepts in film and cultural studies of the past 40 years. The "Film Theory in Practice" s eries fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner offers a concise introduction to Postmodernism in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Ridley Scott''s cult film Blade Runner .

About the author

Matthew Flisfeder is a Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is the author of Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (2017), and The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (2012). He is also the co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (2014).

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Flisfeder, Matthew (University of Winnipeg Flisfeder, Flisfeder Matthew
• Assisted by: Todd McGowan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781501311802
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-1180-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Film Theory in Practice; Film Theory in Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Fernsehen, TV, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism