Some film directors shun the commercial aspect of their product, preferring to stress the artistic side of their work; Ridley Scott, however, revels in it. Lush visuals and a fast-moving camera make Scott's films immediately betray his direction, whether...

Ridley Scott's 1982 film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) received poor reviews when it opened. It did not take long, however, for Blade Runner to become known as one of the...

Blade Runner is a 1982 American neo-noir science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, was based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film stars Harrison...

Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998:_ Out of the 43 newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006, only four made the new...

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Sean Young has entered rehabilitation for alcohol abuse following a weekend outburst in which she was heckling from the audience at the Directors Guild of America awards.The 48-year-old actress was escorted from the ballroom at the Hyatt Regency in Century City Saturday night after sparring...

Jane Stillwater is an unlikely war correspondent. She's 64, a self-described Berkeley "flower child, 40 years later" and broke. So how did this mother of four grown children end up in Baghdad, churning out commentary ranging from shock at Thursday's bombing of the Iraqi parliament...

In the following essay, Marder discusses the interplay between artificial and organic beings in Blade Runner and examines questions of filmic representation regarding the relationship between human spectators and visual technology.

In the following essay, Byers comments that Alien, Blade Runner, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers include several moments of “startling misogyny,” arguing that such instances of cinematic textual excess express “both the instability of male identity and the vulnerability of male hegemony.”

In the following essay, Fitting explores the contrasting messages regarding the use and misuse of technology in the film Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the novel on which the film was based.

Discusses the film Bladerunner and analyzes its wider philosophical significance. Describes the dystopian society depicted in the film and analyzes the representation of the body.

Comparing the two texts 'Brave New World' and 'Blade Runner' in relation to their context.

Compares the Aldous Huxley novel, Brave New World and the Ridley Scott film, Bladerunner. Discusses the main theme in both works, that the survival of humanity is dependent upon its contact with the natural world.