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Visions of the Future: An exploration of the visual and thematic worlds of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.

Åberg, Elisabet LU (2022) FIVK01 20221
Film Studies
Abstract
This essay examines the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content with the aim of reaching new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which the films were made. Each subchapter explores the films from a different perspective leading up to chapter IV, in which I consider the films in relation to the cultural theory of capitalist realism. Here I broaden the focus of the text to examine cinema’s symptomatic and productive relationship to cultural processes, and how our visions of the future possess the power to impact what it will become.
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author
Åberg, Elisabet LU
supervisor
organization
course
FIVK01 20221
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Blade Runner, postmodernism, capitalist realism, cyberpunk, film science, filmvetenskap.
language
English
id
9082682
date added to LUP
2022-06-20 08:35:07
date last changed
2022-06-20 08:35:07
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  abstract     = {{This essay examines the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content with the aim of reaching new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which the films were made. Each subchapter explores the films from a different perspective leading up to chapter IV, in which I consider the films in relation to the cultural theory of capitalist realism. Here I broaden the focus of the text to examine cinema’s symptomatic and productive relationship to cultural processes, and how our visions of the future possess the power to impact what it will become.}},
  author       = {{Åberg, Elisabet}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Visions of the Future: An exploration of the visual and thematic worlds of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}