Postmodern Metanarratives [electronic resource] : Blade Runner and Literature in the Age of Image /
Cruz, Décio Torres.author.
Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 On Words and Meanings: Contradictions of the Modern or Postmodern Contradictions?; 2 Literature and Film: A Brief Overview of Theory and Criticism; 3 Blurring Genres: Dissolving Literature and Film in Blade Runner; 4 Revisiting the Biblical Tradition: Dante, Blake and Milton in Blade Runner; 5 Revisiting the Psychoanalytical Tradition; 6 Collating the Postmodern; 7 When Differences Fall Apart; 8 From Conception to Inception: A Never-Ending Story
9 Deleted and Alternate Scenes in BR10 The Workprint; 11 Postmodern Renaissance: The Final Cut and the Rebirth of a Classic 25 Years Later; 12 Recycling Media: Blade Runner to Be Continued; Conclusion: Replicating Life and Art; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern.
Blade runner (Motion picture)
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures-United States.
Motion pictures-History.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
American Cinema and TV.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Arts.