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With replicants on the run, the rain-drenched Los Angeles which Blade Runner imagines is a city of oppression and enclosure, but a city in which transgression and disorder can always erupt. Graced by stunning sets, lighting, effects, costumes and photography, Blade Runner succeeds brilliantly in depicting a world at once uncannily familiar and startlingly new. In his innovative and nuanced reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes following its release in He situates the film in terms of debates about postmodernism, which have informed much of the criticism devoted to it, but argues that its tensions derive also from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city — as a space both imprisoning and liberating.

In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Bukatman suggests that Blade Runner 's visual complexity allows it to translate successfully to the world of high definition and on-demand home cinema.

He looks back to the sciencefiction tradition of the early s, and on to the key changes in the 'final' version of the film in , which risk diminishing the sense of instability created in the original. Both films have been widely hailed as among the greatest science-fiction movies of all time, and Ridley Scott, director of the original Blade Runner, has announced that there will be a third Blade Runner movie. Blade Runner and Philosophy is a collection of entertaining articles on both Blade Runner movies and on the spin-off short films and Blade Runner novels by twenty philosophers representing diverse backgrounds and philosophical perspectives.

Among the issues addressed in the book: What does Blade Runner tell us about the interactions of state power and corporate power? Can machines ever become truly conscious, or will they always lack some essential human qualities? The most popular theory of personhood says that a person is defined by their memories, so what happens when memories can be manufactured and inserted at will?

We already interact with non-human decision-makers via the Internet. When embodied AI becomes reality, how can we know what is human and what is simulation? Does it matter? The blade runner Deckard Harrison Ford appears in both movies, and is generally assumed to be human, but some claim he may be a replicant. What motivates him? What are the impacts of decision-making AI entities on the world of business?

Both Blade Runner and Blade Runner have been praised for their hauntingly beautiful depictions of a bleak future, but the two futures are very different and the future imagined in the original Blade Runner is considerably different from the actual world of How have our expectations and visions of the future changed between the two movies?

What are the implications of a person whose dedicated mission and task is to invent and install false memories? What are the social and psychological implications of human-AI sexual relations? In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

Official retrospective companion book to the Paramount film Arrival featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with key creative and scientific team members. Since its release in , Denis Villeneuve's Arrival has embedded itself firmly in the minds of moviegoers around the world. The film, which was grounded in a certain level of plausible science, has also generated conversation within academia and has been studied in film, philosophy, and linguistic classes.

In The Art and Science of Arrival, author and producer Tanya Lapointe revisits the film and its legacy with the production's key team members. This lavish hardback volume recounts the genesis of this modern classic, from Ted Chiang's short story The Story of Your Life to its premiere in Venice and its subsequent eight Academy Award TM nominations.

It explores the film's concept of non-linear time, and showcases the remarkable concept art that brought the aliens, their ships and their startling logogram language to life. The officially sanctioned graphic novel prequel to the cult science fiction movie Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott. It is and Blade Runner Ash continues to hunt the streets of the rain-soaked dystopian world of Los Angeles for renegade Replicants, but this time she's trying to protect as many as she can find In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M.

Sammon reveals how the making of the original Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry at the time it was made. Provides storyboards, behind-the-scenes photographs of the computer-generated weaponry and spaceships, and interviews with the director and the actors of the science fiction film. Among the issues addressed in the book: What does Blade Runner tell us about the interactions of state power and corporate power?

Can machines ever become truly conscious, or will they always lack some essential human qualities? The most popular theory of personhood says that a person is defined by their memories, so what happens when memories can be manufactured and inserted at will? We already interact with non-human decision-makers via the Internet.

When embodied AI becomes reality, how can we know what is human and what is simulation? Does it matter? The blade runner Deckard Harrison Ford appears in both movies, and is generally assumed to be human, but some claim he may be a replicant. What motivates him? What are the impacts of decision-making AI entities on the world of business? Both Blade Runner and Blade Runner have been praised for their hauntingly beautiful depictions of a bleak future, but the two futures are very different and the future imagined in the original Blade Runner is considerably different from the actual world of How have our expectations and visions of the future changed between the two movies?

What are the implications of a person whose dedicated mission and task is to invent and install false memories? What are the social and psychological implications of human-AI sexual relations? Containing specially commissioned chapters by a roster of international contributors, this fascinating collection explores philosophical questions that abound in Blade Runner , including: What distinguishes the authentically "human" person?

How might shared memories feature in the constitution of personal identities? What happens when created beings transcend the limits intended in their design? Blade Runner - Interlinked - The Art. Film audiences experienced a bold, breathtaking vision of the future in 's ground-breaking Blade Runner. With the critically acclaimed Blade Runner , director Denis Villeneuve returned to that world,.

Blade Runner Containing specially commissioned chapters by a roster of international contributors, this fascinating collection explores philosophical questions that abound in.