Studying Blade Runner

By Sean Redmond

Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is now widely recognised as a masterwork of science fiction cinema, and one of the most influential of any films released in the last twenty-five years. In Studying Blade Runner, Sean Redmond uses the key concepts of media and film studies--film language, representation, institutions, and audiences--to explore the significance of the film: its breakthrough use of special effects as a narrative tool; the film's revolutionary representation of the future city; its treatment of racial and sexual politics; its unique status as a text whose meaning was fundamentally altered in its rereleased "Director's Cut" form--and what this means in an institutional context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903663245
• ISBN13: 9781903663240
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 11.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher