Studying Blade Runner: Instructor's Edition (Studying Film Series) [Paperback]

Sean Redmond (Author)

Book Description

Series: Studying Film Series | Publication Date: March 12, 2008

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.

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recommended for undergraduate courses that focus extensively on Blade Runner, as well as general libraries catering to introductory film studies students.

(Kevin M. Flanagan Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 50 pages
• Publisher: Auteur; Instructor's ed edition (March 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903663245
• ISBN-13: 978-1903663240
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,995,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Book? Think square bound pamphlet, January 18, 2010

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This review is from: Studying Blade Runner (Studying Film Series) (Paperback)

My review is based more on the actual product and it's value,and in my opinion it's not a very good one. A very small,96 page square bound pamphlet. Not long enough to get too deep into any real type of analysis, as the title would leave you to believe ("Studying" Blade Runner).I've seen more thorough coverage in a magazine.Disappointing...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 85% there but lacking, November 10, 2011

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This review is from: Studying Blade Runner (Studying Film Series) (Paperback)

Sean Redmond's booklet is a pretty good read but lacks on depth, clear analysis and a good presentation of facts.

There are a number of points Sean uses that are very easy to take a different view. Case in point would be the issue of the 5th replicant. Sean's premise is that it is Deckard (based on a later interview with Ridley Scott). Interviews with writers and screenplay analysis contend that the 5th replicant was a mistake during production of the film.

Overall the book does make one stop and reexamine the film with some new insights but your money would be better spent on Paul M. Sammon's book, "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner". Sammon's book presents most of Redmond's premises to the reader and does so in a much more informative, factual and clearer way.