REEL TOADS AND IMAGINARY CITIES: PHILIP K. DICK, BLADE RUNNER AND THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. EDITOR’S NOTE vii
4. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS viii
5. INTRODUCTION: 2019 VISION 1
6. THE BLADE RUNNER EXPERIENCE: PILGRIMAGE AND LIMINAL SPACE 11
7. POST-MILLENNIUM BLADE RUNNER 31
8. SECTION 1: THE CINEMA OF PHILIP K. DICK
9. REEL TOADS AND IMAGINARY CITIES: PHILIP K. DICK, BLADE RUNNER AND THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE 43
10. REDEMPTION, ‘RACE’, RELIGION, REALITY AND THE FAR-RIGHT: SCIENCE FICTION FILM ADAPTATIONS OF PHILIP K. DICK 59
11. SECTION 2: PLAYING BLADE RUNNER
12. REPLICATING THE BLADE RUNNER 79
13. IMPLANTED MEMORIES, OR THE ILLUSION OF FREE ACTION 92
14. SECTION 3: FANS
15. SCANNING THE REPLICANT TEXT 111
16. ACADEMIC TEXTUAL POACHERS: BLADE RUNNER AS CULT CANONICAL MOVIE 124
17. ORIGINALS AND COPIES: THE FANS OF PHILIP K. DICK, BLADE RUNNER AND K. W. JETER 142
18. SECTION 4: IDENTITIES
19. THE RACHEL PAPERS: IN SEARCH OF BLADE RUNNER’S FEMME FATALE 159
20. PURGE! CLASS PATHOLOGY IN BLADE RUNNER 173
21. POSTMODERN ROMANCE: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF (DE)CENTRING THE SELF 190
22. SECTION 5: THE CITY
23. FALSE LA: BLADE RUNNER AND THE NIGHTMARE CITY 203
24. IMAGINING THE REAL: BLADE RUNNER AND DISCOURSES ON THE POSTMETROPOLIS 213
25. FILMOGRAPHY 225
26. BIBLIOGRAPHY 230
27. INDEX 245