Mi amigo Jesús Olmo me avisa de la publicación de este nuevo volumen dedicado a la película Blade Runner y que saldrá a la venta en enero de 2010.
La ficha del libro en Wallflower Press:
More than just a box office flop which entered the midnight movie circuit, Blade Runner (1982) has had an extraordinary cultural life that can also be traced to its appearances on video, laserdisc and a five-DVD collector’s edition. More than just a single film, Blade Runner has become a network of variant texts and fan speculations – a franchise created around just one title. It has been dubbed a ‘classroom cult’ for its role in academic debates, and is arguably ‘meta-cult’ in Umberto Eco’s terms. It is also a ‘design cult’ thanks to Ridley Scott’s on-screen creation of Los Angeles, 2019 – with graphics and props being emulated by creative fans. Blade Runner tests the limits of authenticity and artificiality, challenging us to tell the difference between classic and flop, margin and mainstream, true cult and its replicants.
Sobre el autor:
Matt Hills is reader in Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is author of Fan Cultures (2002), The Pleasures of Horror (2005) and Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-first Century (2009).
