{"title":"Scott Bukatman","description":"\u003cp\u003eScott Bukatman explores the intersections of popular culture and visual arts, offering insightful analyses that challenge conventional perspectives. His work often delves into iconic media such as \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e, examining the ways science fiction shapes and reflects societal anxieties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful, richly detailed studies that blend cultural theory with a passion for film and graphic narratives. Bukatman's writing invites a deeper understanding of art’s role in contemporary culture and the meanings embedded within cinematic and visual texts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blade-runner-by-scott-bukatman-9781844575220","title":"Blade Runner","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRidley Scott's dystopian classic \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, \u003cem\u003eDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\u003c\/em\u003e, combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk vision of urban life in the twenty-first century. With replicants on the run, the rain-drenched Los Angeles which \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e imagines is a city of oppression and enclosure, but a city in which transgression and disorder can always erupt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGraced by stunning sets, lighting, effects, costumes, and photography, \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e succeeds brilliantly in depicting a world at once uncannily familiar and startlingly new. In his innovative and nuanced reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e and its steadily improving fortunes following its release in 1982. He situates the film in terms of debates about postmodernism, which have informed much of the criticism devoted to it, but argues that its tensions derive also from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city – as a space both imprisoning and liberating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Bukatman suggests that \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e's visual complexity allows it to translate successfully to the world of high definition and on-demand home cinema. He looks back to the science fiction tradition of the early 1980s, and on to the key changes in the ‘final’ version of the film in 2007, which risk diminishing the sense of instability created in the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383587160300,"sku":"9781844575220","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20565443482844.jpg?v=1773376379"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/scott-bukatman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}