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Retrofitting Blade Runner : issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? /

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This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner, especially the film's relationship to its source novel, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film's implications as a thought experiment pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kerman, Judith, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1997]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Blade runner (Motion picture)
Dick, Philip K. > Film adaptations.
Dick, Philip K. > Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Dick, Philip K.
Do androids dream of electric sheep? (Dick, Philip K.)
Science fiction films > United States > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > United States > Plots, themes, etc.
Film adaptations > United States.
Films de science-fiction > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Intrigues, thèmes, etc.
Adaptations cinématographiques > États-Unis.
Film adaptations.
Motion pictures > Plots, themes, etc.
Science fiction films.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Social Implications: Blade Runner as Thought Experiment. The android as Doppelganger / Joseph Francavilla
  • Technology and politics in the Blade Runner dystopia / Judith B. Kerman
  • Metahuman 'Kipple' or, do male movie makers dream of electric women? : speciesism and sexism in Blade Runner / Marleen Barr
  • Androids as a device for reflection on personhood / Marilyn Gwaltney.
  • Genre Issues: Sources and Synthesis. The cutting edges of Blade Runner / Leonard G. Heldreth
  • The new Eve: the influence of Paradise Lost and Frankenstein on Blade Runner / David Desser
  • Entropy, energy, empathy: Blade Runner and detective fiction / W. Russel Gray
  • Philip K. Dick's androids: victimized victimizers / Aaron Barlow.
  • Film Sources and Adaptation Issues. "There's some of me in you" : Blade Runner and the adaptation of science fiction literature into film / Brooks Landon
  • Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner : "they did sight stimulation on my brain" / Gregg Rickman
  • Race, space and class: the politics of the science fiction film from Metropolis to Blade Runner / David Desser
  • Primitivism in the movies of Ridley Scott: Alien & Blade Runner / C. Carter Colwell
  • Script to screen: Blade runner in perspective ; Blade Runner film notes / William M. Kolb.
  • Aesthetics and the Creation of Science Fiction Worlds. A silver-paper unicorn / Rebecca Warner
  • Subverting the disaffected city: cityscape in Blade Runner / Steve Carper
  • The music in Blade Runner / Andrew Stiller
  • Creative synergy and the art of world creation / John J. Pierce
  • Crashing the gates of insight: Blade Runner / Jack Boozer, Jr.
  • Reconstructing the director's cut / William M. Kolb
  • Blade Runner credits: "Memories, you're talkin' about memories"
  • Re-retrofitting Blade Runner/ Leonard G. Heldreth.