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Blade Runner (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Blade Runner (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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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 science
fiction 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.
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