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Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinemaby Annette KuhnISBN 0860919935 (0-86091-993-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema'Book summary:Perhaps because of its very popularity and cult status, science fiction in all its forms has long suffered from critical neglect.
This is especially true of the science fiction filma genre as old as cinema itselfwhich has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called "woman's film." Alien Zone aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular. The essays in this booksome newly written, others gathered from scattered sourceslook at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre: the mise-en-scene of future worlds; the myth of masculine mastery of nature; power and authority and their relation to technology. This material is ordered and contextualized by the editor with a view to exploring how science fiction cinema has been approached critically and theoretically by commentators on the genre: as a mirror of society, as bearing or producing ideology; as caught up in an intertext of media productions, or as expressing unconscious desires. Contributors include Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Thomas B. Byers, Barbara Creed, Anne Cranny-Francis, Daniel Dervin, H. Bruce Franklin, James H. Kavanagh, Douglas Kelner, Steve Neale, Judith Newton, Constance Penley, Hugh Ruppersberg, Michael Ryan, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Stern, J. P. Telotte, and Paul Virilio. [via]More editions of Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema:
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Blade Runnerby Philip K. DickISBN 0345350472 (0-345-35047-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blade Runner'Book summary:A principios del siglo XXI, la poderosa Tyrell Corporation desarrolló un nuevo tipo de robot llamado Nexus, un ser virtualmente idéntico al hombre y conocido como Replicante. Los Replicantes Nexus-6 eran superiores en fuerza y agilidad, y al menos iguales en inteligencia, a los ingenieros de genética que los crearon. En el espacio exterior, los Replicantes fueron usados como trabajadores esclavos en la arriesgada exploración y colonización de otros planetas. Después de la sangrienta rebelión de un equipo de combate de Nexus-6 en una colonia sideral, los Replicantes fueron declarados proscritos en la Tierra bajo pena de muerte. Brigadas de policías especiales, tenían órdenes de tirar a matar al ver a cualquier Replicante invasor.
This novel hooks the reader to such extent that he comes the point of doubting whether what hes reading is really happening or its only a part of Dicks pseudo-reality. In this way, the androids of Do Android Dream on Electric sheeps? In Blade Runner called replicants. [via] 
Blade Runnerby K. W. JeterISBN 0553099833 (0-553-09983-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Blade Runnerby Scott BukatmanISBN 0851706231 (0-85170-623-1)
Softcover, BFI Publishing
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Blade Runner 2by K. W. JeterISBN 0553762672 (0-553-76267-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Blade Runner: The Inside Storyby Don ShayISBN 1840232102 (1-84023-210-2)
Hardcover, Titan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blade Runner: The Inside Story'Book summary:This is a comprehensive examination of 'Blade Runner's' highly influential special effects which contains numerous images, and in-depth interviews witth Ridley Scott and the designer Syd Mead. [via]
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Changeby David HarveyISBN 0631162941 (0-631-16294-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change'Book summary:The Condition of Postmodernity is David Harvey's seminal history of this, our most equivocal of eras. What does postmodernism mean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a Professor of Geography, and a key mover behind extending the scope and influence of the discipline of geography itself, does a thorough job here delineating the passage through to postmodernity and the economic, social and political changes that underscored and accompanied it. As he clearly states, the rise in postmodernist cultural forms is related to a new intensity in what Harvey terms "time-space compression" but this new intensity is a qualitive and not a quantitive change in social organisation and does not point to a era beyond capitalism as "the basic rules of capitalistic accumulation" remain unchanged. Unlike Fredric Jameson (whose equally rewarding Postmodernism stands as the twin pillar to Harvey's critique), who explicitly relies on Ernest Mandel's periodisation of Late Capitalism, Harvey eschews a narrowly economic focus, the limits and contradictions of production that have led to the rise in the service sector, and takes a more multidisciplinary approach to his history: as comfortable discussing Manet as he is labour markets. Harvey is an excellent writer and The Condition of Postmodernity is an exceptionally informative and enjoyable read. Mark Thwaite [via]
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The Cutting Room Floor: Movie Scenes Which Never Made It to the Moviesby Laurent BouzereauISBN 0806514914 (0-8065-1491-4)
Softcover, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?by Philip K. DickISBN 0345404475 (0-345-40447-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?'Book summary:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a book that most people think they remember and almost always get more or less wrong. Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner took a lot from it, and threw a lot away. Wonderful in itself, the film is a flash thriller, whereas Dick's novel is a sober meditation. As we all know, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is stalking a group of androids who have returned from space with short life spans and murder on their minds--where Scott's Deckard was Harrison Ford, Dick's is a financially strapped municipal employee with bills to pay and a depressed wife. In a world where most animals have died, and pet keeping is a social duty, he can only afford a robot imitation, unless he gets a big financial break.
The genetically warped "chickenhead" John Isidore has visions of a tomb-world where entropy has finally won. And everyone plugs in to the spiritual agony of Mercer, whose sufferings for the sins of humanity are broadcast several times a day. Prefiguring the religious obsessions of Dick's last novels, this book asks dark questions about identity and altruism. After all, is it right to kill the killers just because Mercer says so? --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Edge of Humanby K. W. JetterISBN 0553575708 (0-553-57570-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edge of Human'Book summary:K.W. Jeter picks up the tale of Rick Deckard, the `blade runner' created by Phillip K. Dick and popularized by Ridley Scott's cult classic film. Consistent with the sordid vision of 21st century Los Angeles crafted by Dick and Scott, Jeter creates a stylish piece of thrilling, futuristic suspense that finds Deckard not only in the role of hunter, but also hunted. Again, Deckard is on the trail of an replicant, not knowing that it may be the most elusive and dangerous android of all. [via]
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Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runnerby Paul SammonISBN 0061053147 (0-06-105314-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner'Book summary:The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made.
Future Noir is the story of that triumph.
The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry.
A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic. [via]
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Postmodernityby David LyonISBN 033520144X (0-335-20144-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postmodernity'Book summary:Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered an enormous, sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. In Postmodernity, David Lyon provides a stimulating introduction to this contested concept and the discussions which surround it. [via]
Replicant Nightby K. W. JeterISBN 0553577751 (0-553-57775-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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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?"by Judith B. KermanISBN 0879725109 (0-87972-510-9)
Softcover, Popular Pr of Bowling Green State
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The Science Fiction Film Readerby Gregg RickmanISBN 0879109947 (0-87910-994-7)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Terminal Identityby Scott BukatmanISBN 0822313405 (0-8223-1340-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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