num_pages: 96
description: This text details the making of Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes after its indifferent reception in 1982. The film is situated in terms of the debates about postmodernism which have informed the large body of criticism devoted to it.
language: English
title: Blade Runner
titlecomplete: Blade Runner
genres: Academic, Philosophy, Film, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Media Tie In, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literature, Criticism, Fiction
ratings_count: 657
series: BFI Film Classics
publisher: British Film Institute