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Blade Runner

by Scott Bukatman · 1997 · 96 pages

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This text details the making of Blade Runnerand its steadily improving fortunes after its indifferent reception in 1982. The film is situated in terms of the debates about postmodernism which have informed the large body of criticism devoted to it.

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Subject
literary criticismphilosophy
Genre
science fictiondystopia
Themes
movies
Audience
adult
Length
short · 96 pages

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