Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is now widely recognised as a masterwork of science fiction cinema, and one of the most influential of any films released in the last twenty-five years. In Studying Blade Runner, Sean Redmond uses the key concepts of media and film studies—film language, representation, institutions, and audiences—to explore the significance of the film: its breakthrough use of special effects as a narrative tool; the film's revolutionary representation of the future city; its treatment of racial and sexual politics; its unique status as a text whose meaning was fundamentally altered in its rereleased "Director's Cut" form—and what this means in an institutional context.
- ISBN10 1903663245
- ISBN13 9781903663240
- Publish Date 19 March 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 December 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Imprint Auteur Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 50
- Language English