Blade RunnerIn his reading of one of the most influential films of the 1980s, Scott Bukatman situates the film in terms of debates about postmodernism. Although BLADE RUNNER explores the tensions fundamental to a postmodern era of bewildering technological change, he argues that the film derives from the 20th-century modernist experience of the city--the experience of a space both imprisoning and liberating. Color illustrations. |
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