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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Blade Runner"”.
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Heimspeki í kvikmyndinni Blade Runner. Eru kvikmyndir heppilegt verkfæri til að leggja stund á heimspeki?
… ritgerð ætla ég að taka fyrir kvikmyndina Blade Runner og skoða hana út frá heimspekilegu sjónarhorni. Kvikmyndin kom út árið 1982 í leikstjórn Ridley Scott eftir sögu Philip K. Dick, Do androids dream of electric sheep? Myndin vakti ekki mikla athygli til að byrja með en hróður hennar …
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Information in architecture: the programable space
… could be. Films such as, “1984”, “Brazil”, and “Blade Runner” as well as books like William Gibson’s fantasy novel “Neuromancer” are but a few examples of such vision. Unfortunately, all have envisioned the future as a cold bleak place where architecture is but a machine and lost people live in …
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Exploding spaces : present and future urban spaces cinematically considered
… of several films in Chapters 4-6: Disclosure, Blade Runner, Selen, The Devil's Advocate, 12 Monkeys and The Fifth Element. (While not all the films would be considered as science fiction, those non-science fiction films offer provocative readings of the city as a whole). Within the discussion …
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Sequels and SAMs: Re-contextualized Media and Affective Memory
… by the use of the sequel. I analyze <em>Blade Runner 2049</em> as a representation of a sequel that reuses old scenes in new contexts. Because of the affectual elements of these scenes, the memory of the original viewing experience can be warped, changed, or forgotten. I finish by …
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The transient composer: rearrangement of pre-existing music in the film score
… 2013), Watchmen (Damon Lindelof, 2019) and Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve 2017). While each of these examples incorporates rearrangement in nuanced, textually complex ways, even the most innocuous uses of rearrangement in recent films and television series reinforce my central …
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Recycled alterity: Familiar dehumanisation in the contemporary fiction of genetic posthumanism
… Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976); Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982); Fay Weldon’s The Cloning of Joanna May (1989); Michael Marshall Smith’s Spares (1996); Caryl Churchill’s A Number (2002); and Michael Bay’s The Island (2005). Each of these works contests the posthumanist assumption that genetic …
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The 'Uncanny' and The Android
The character of the android is found widely in film and literature. While she appears across the entire spectrum of genres, she most often makes her appearance in the uncanny text. This appearance is nearly always accompanied by some variation of the vision motif. Despite wide spread interest in …