The Cultural Heritage of Blade Runner by Nathan Abrams, Eliza... - 9781836244936

The Cultural Heritage of Blade Runner'More Human than Human'\nAuthor(s): Nathan Abrams, Elizabeth Miller, Christopher L. Robinson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781836244936, 978-1836244936\nSynopsis\nBlade Runner has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Adapted from Philip K. Dicks novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, it anticipated with remarkable prescience the world in which we have lived for the past four decades. Ridley Scotts breathtaking vision of a futuristic and cosmopolitan metropolis created an aesthetic and cognitive shock that continues to resonate to this day, not only in cinema but in multiple artistic and even scientific domains. The film is often cited in debates related to robotics, biopolitics, posthumanism, urban planning and critical theory. Denis Villeneuve's sequel, Blade Runner 2049, continues to explore these themes while introducing issues related to artif.