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Blade Runner

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ISBN-10: 0851706231

ISBN-13: 9780851706238

Edition: 1997

Authors: Scott Bukatman

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Blade Runner has proved to be one of the most enduring and influential films of the 1980s. In his innovative reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of the film and its steadily improving fortunes after its initial release. He situates the film in terms of the debates about post modernism that have informed the large body of criticism devoted to it. Although Blade Runner explores the tensions fundamental to a postmodern era of bewildering technological change, Bukatman argues, it derives from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city--the experience of a space both imprisoning and liberating.
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 8/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Scott Bukatmanis Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of many books, includingTerminal Identityand, most recently,Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the Twentieth Century.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Seeing, Science Fiction and Cities
Filming Blade Runner
The Metropolis
Replicants and Mental Life
Conclusion
Notes
Credits
Bibliography