File spoon-archives/film-theory.archive/film-theory_1998/film-theory.9810, message 41


From: DHHunter-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:56:15 EST
Subject: Re:



 you wrote:

<<I am but a lowly first year university student after a definition of the 
basis of film theory and perhaps an application of it to the film Blade 
Runner.>>

there has been a good deal of writing about blade runner but I feel that most
of it has been in the areas of cultural and urban theory.  THe difference
being that these articles see the film as "symptomatic" of some development in
the ideology of technology or of the city.  see for example:

Notes on the sophisticated city by Eric Alleiez and Michel Feher in ZONE 1|2
published by urzone (now part of the MIT press) 

or Andrew Benjamin's "At Home with the Replicants" which you can get -AT-
HTTP://www.Basilisk.com look at issue #1

-Douglas


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