Retrofitting Blade Runner : Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Judith B Kerman
University of Wisconsin Press
9780879725105
0-87972-510-9
This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scotts film Blade Runner, especially the films relationship to its source novel, Philip K. Dicks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film, as well as literary, filmic, technical and aesthetic questions. Contributors discuss the films psychological and mythic patterns, importance political issues and the roots of the film in Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, detective fiction, and previous science fiction cinema.