Blade runner

Scott Bukatman, British Film Institute

British Film Institute, Sep 26, 1997 - Performing Arts - 96 pages

'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.

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As a longtime fan of Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" as well as an excited newcomer to the British Film Institute's Modern Classics series, it saddens me to register my disappointment with Scott ...

Review: Blade Runner (BFI Modern Classics / BFI Film Classics)

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c-beams glitter in the dark by tannhauser gate…

About the author

Scott Bukatman is Professor of Media Arts at the University of New Mexico.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blade runner; BFI modern classics; BFI Film Classics
• Authors: Scott Bukatman, British Film Institute
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: British Film Institute, 1997
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 26, 2008
• ISBN: 0851706231, 9780851706238
• Length: 96 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film & Video / General; Performing Arts / Film & Video / Guides & Reviews; Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film & Video / Reference