Blade Runner - Softcover

• Constellations: Blade Runner.

• The Constellations series provides a unique opportunity for writers to share their passion for science fiction cinema and television. 

• Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner is now widely recognized as an undisputed masterwork of science fiction cinema and one of the most influential films released in the last forty years.

• Yet on its original release, it was both a critical and commercial failure, criticized for its perceived prioritizing of style over content. How did a film that was removed from circulation within a month of its premiere come to mean so much to modern audiences and provide such a rich seam of material for film and media studies?

In Constellations: Blade Runner, author Sean Redmond excavates the many significances of the film – its breakthrough use of special effects as a narrative tool; its revolutionary representation of the future city; its treatment of racial and sexual politics; and its unique status as a text whose meaning was fundamentally altered in its re-released Director's Cut form, then further revised in a Final Cut in 2007. 

Sean Redmond is an associate professor in media and communication at Deakin University.

Pages: 91

Published: September 2016

Size (cm): 19 x 14 x 0.5

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