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Postmodern metanarratives = Blade Runner and literature in the age of image /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Postmodern metanarratives/ Decio Torres Cruz.
Reminder of title:	Blade Runner and literature in the age of image /
Author:	Cruz, Decio, Torres.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	232 p. :10 figures. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Motion pictures and literature. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137439734 (electronic bk.) :

Postmodern metanarratives = Blade Runner and literature in the age of image /
Cruz, Decio, Torres.

Postmodern metanarrativesBlade Runner and literature in the age of image /[electronic resource] :Decio Torres Cruz. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 232 p. :10 figures.

Electronic book text.

Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. On Words and Meanings: Contradictions of the Modern or Postmodern Contradictions? 2. Literature and film: A Brief Overview of Theory and Criticism 3. Blurring genres: Dissolving Literature and Film in Blade Runner 4. Revisiting the Biblical Tradition 5. Revisiting the Freudian Tradition 6. Collating the Postmodern Conclusion: Replicating Life and Art Works Cited Endnotes.

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Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern.Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature. Torres Cruz studies the history of Blade Runner and examines Scott's cyberpunk narrative by establishing a link between tradition and the (post)modern in a collage of several literary texts. The modern hero is confronted with the epic hero through the biblical epic works of Dante, Milton and Blake, and the film's references to Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Hoffman's The Sandman are analyzed from a psychoanalytical perspective. The (post)modern references in the film are compared to works of Dick, Burroughs, Nourse and Huxley, and to the literary sequels of Scott's film in Jeter's novels. The book also explores how Blade Runner reflects media's ubiquitous power in postmodern society and deconstructs the fake/real and original/copy dualities.

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Decio Torres Cruz holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Buffalo, USA. He did post-doctoral research on film adaptations of Shakespeare's works at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, and now teaches Literatures in English at UFBA and UNEB in Brazil. He has written several books and sits on a number of journal editorial boards.

ISBN: 1137439734 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

571730
Motion pictures and literature.

LC Class. No.: PN1997.B596 / C88 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4372

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