Product Description

Blade Runner has proved to be one of the most enduring and influential films of the 1980s. In his innovative reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of the film and its steadily improving fortunes after its initial release. He situates the film in terms of the debates about post modernism that have informed the large body of criticism devoted to it. Although "Blade Runner "explores the tensions fundamental to a postmodern era of bewildering technological change, Bukatman argues, it derives from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city - the experience of a space both imprisoning and liberating.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #189484 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Review
'There's a lot of material for such a small size so it's worthy of your consideration.' - GF Willmetts, SF Crowsnest

About the Author
SCOTT BUKATMAN

Customer Reviews

Short But Sweet
I've tried to read as much as possible about Blade Runner for several reasons, the two most important being;
1)I love the film and therefore enjoy reading about it.
2)If I read enough about it I might understand why I love it.
It goes without saying that I might, eventually, understand a bit more about myself.
Well, in a nutshell, this publication satisfied both points above and went some way to helping me on the third.
It is very in-depth, personal yet analytical, written as a work of love but not ass-kissing and includes some beautiful stills in both B/W and colour.
Perhaps more to the point, Bukatman attempts to get under the skin of BR (no pun intended) and puts across several interpretations of the the movie's themes that I have never read before in a single volume by just one person.
Highly recommended.