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Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Judith B. Kerman

First published 1991
Publisher Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Gary Dumm
Pages 291
ISBN 0879725095

No imprinted price. The bibliography is credited to "William M. Kolb" in the TOC but to "W. M. Kolb" on the bibliography's title page. The essay on p. 154 uses "William M. Kolb" in both places.

Year Reviewer Publication
1992 Stef Lewicki Foundation, #55 Summer 1992
1994 Scott Pohlenz For Dickheads Only, #5

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Retrofitting Blade Runner) Judith B. Kerman Essay
4 The Android as Doppelganger Joseph Francavilla Essay
16 Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia Judith B. Kerman Essay
25 Metahuman 'Kipple' Or, Do Male Movie Makers Dream of Electric Women: Speciesism and Sexism in Blade Runner Marleen Barr Essay
32 Androids As a Device for Reflection on Personhood Marilyn Gwaltney Essay
40 The Cutting Edges of Blade Runner Leonard G. Heldreth Essay
53 The New Eve: The Influence of Paradise Lost and Frankenstein on Blade Runner David Desser Essay
66 Entropy, Energy, Empathy: Blade Runner and Detective Fiction W. Russel Gray Essay
76 Philip K. Dick's Androids: Victimized Victimizers Aaron Barlow Essay
90 "There's Some of Me in You": Blade Runner and the Adaptation of Science Fiction Literature Into Film Brooks Landon Essay
103 Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner: "They Did Sight Stimulation on My Brain" Gregg Rickman Essay
110 Race, Space and Class: The Politics of the SF Film from Metropolis to Blade Runner David Desser Essay
124 Primitivism in the Movies of Ridley Scott: Alien & Blade Runner C. Carter Colwell Essay
132 Script to Screen: Blade Runner in Perspective William M. Kolb Essay
154 Blade Runner Film Notes William M. Kolb Essay
178 A Silver-Paper Unicorn Rebecca Warner Essay
185 Subverting the Disaffected City: Cityscape in Blade Runner Steve Carper Essay
196 The Music in Blade Runner Andrew Stiller Essay
201 Creative Synergy and the Art of World Creation John J. Pierce Essay
212 Crashing the Gates of Insight: Blade Runner Jack Boozer, Jr. Essay
229 Bibliography (Retrofitting Blade Runner) W. M. Kolb Essay