Studying Blade Runner

Sean Redmond

revised edition
May, 2008
Paper, 96 pages, 12 b&w
ISBN: 978-1-903663-79-0
Auteur
$15.00

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 many significances 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; iIts unique status as a text whose meaning was fundamentally altered in its re-released ‘Director’s Cut’ form—and what this means in an institutional context.

Related Subjects

• Film

Series

• Studying Film (Auteur)

About the Author

Sean Redmond is the Programme Director in Film at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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