Film Genres, Film History & Criticism

Blade Runner

Name: Blade Runner
Author: Scott Bukatman
ISBN: 9781844575220

by Scott Bukatman

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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.

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

About the Author, Scott Bukatman

SCOTT BUKATMAN is a cultural theorist and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. His research explores how popular media such as film, comics and animation mediate between new technologies and human perceptual and bodily experience.