This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott s film Blade Runner, especially the film s relationship to its source novel, Philip K.
Dick s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film, as well as literary, filmic, technical and aesthetic questions.
Contributors discuss the film s psychological and mythic patterns, importance political issues and the roots of the film in Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, detective fiction, and previous science fiction cinema.
Popular Press Retrofitting blade runner: issues in ridley scott's blade runner and phillip k. dick's do androids dream of electric sheep?, paperback/judith b. kerman
