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Blade Runner has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, it anticipated with remarkable prescience the world in which we have lived for the past four decades. Ridley Scott's breathtaking vision of a futuristic and cosmopolitan metropolis created an aesthetic and cognitive shock that continues to resonate to this day, not only in cinema but in multiple artistic and even scientific domains. The film is often cited in debates related to robotics, biopolitics, posthumanism, urban planning and critical theory. Denis Villeneuve's sequel, Blade Runner 2049, continues to explore these themes while introducing issues related to artificial intelligence, transhumanism and climate change. Blade Runner is often credited with having spawned several aesthetic trends, such as retrofuturism, techno-noir or future-noir and, most significantly, cyberpunk. To explore the origins and legacies of this monumental work, this essay collection brings together specialists from fields as diverse as film and media studies, comparative literature and mythology, photography, architecture, fashion studies, psychology, sociology and biopolitics.
Contents
Introduction
Nathan Abrams, Elizabeth Miller, Christopher L. Robinson
Blade Runner at Forty: In the Ruins at the End of History
Sherryl Vint
Blade Runner: Reassessing Ridley Scott's Authorial Signature
Ben Lamb
Madness and the Making of Blade Runner
Lawrence Ratna
Do Androids Dream of Electric Jews? The Jewishness of Blade Runner
Nathan Abrams
The Philosophy of Late Twentieth-Century Photograpy: Computerised Images in Blacde Runner: The Director's Cut
Tom Allbeson
Future Nostalgia: Blade Runner, the Bradbury Building, and the Legacy of Film Noir
Milan Hain
Material Afterlives: Fashioning Menswear in the Blade Runner Films
Jennifer Richards
Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049: Tracing Cyberpunk as a Literature of Resistance
Carrie Lynn Evans
Basic Pleasure Models, Femmes Fatales, Techno-Orientalist Androids, and 'Girlfriend Experiences' from 2019 to 2049 via 2022 and 2046
Nicholas de Villiers
Crossing the Science/Culture Divide: Posthumanism in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
Frances Pheasant-Kelly
More (or Less) Human than Human: The Anthropogenic Machinery of the Blade Runner Films
Christopher L. Robinson
