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Future Imperfect - Philip K. Dick at the Movies (Hardcover)
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Future Imperfect - Philip K. Dick at the Movies (Hardcover)
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Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and
entertaining authors of the last half of the twentieth century, and
the increasing levels of respect and interest that his fiction and
films have generated since the 1982 release of Blade Runner have
made a comprehensive assessment of these films a virtual necessity.
Future Imperfect is the only work to examine the cinematic
adaptations of Dick's work in their entirety. Not all cinematic
adaptations of Dick's work have been equally successful, but they
have all at least made a similar effort to capture his evocative,
paranoid, and compassionate view of humanity's precarious place in
a fallen world--a world where rapidly proliferating technology,
stultifying bureaucracy, and widespread political chicanery
threaten both our bodies and our minds. Author Jason Vest seeks
here to answer the question of how filmmakers as diverse as Ridley
Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, and Richard Linklater have
each, in their turn, expanded, extrapolated, and diverged from
Dick's fiction in order to translate Dick's powerful and
challenging insights on to the screen in a visual and yet still
literary form. Dick's is a singular voice in American literature,
and Future Imperfect aims to gauge exactly how well the cinematic
adaptations of Dick's work have captured his unique vision of the
human future, and how deeply Dick's storytelling abilities have
influenced the development of science-fiction films from Blade
Runner on. Students and general readers interested in
science-fiction literature and film should find this an incredibly
valuable work, as should film enthusiasts concerned with the issue
of adaptation itself. BLAuthor Jason Vest isan expert in both
American literature and the science-fiction genre BLThis marks the
first book-length investigation of Dick's influence on the
science-fiction genre, and also includes some of the more extended
criticism on several seminal science fiction films
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