Description: Provides an introductory explanation of postmodernism and its connection to film theory, and how it can be used to interpret Ridley Scott's film, Blade Runner.
Brief description: Matthew Flisfederis an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film(2012) and co-editor of Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader (2014).
Review Quotes: This book not only offers a thorough and lucid presentation of the multiple features of postmodernist theory today, it dramatizes them in a bravura reading of Blade Runner which sees the film's seven different versions as so many historically distinct texts, each one constituting a modified reaction to a new and evolving socio-historical situation. Flisfeder expertly treads that narrowest of paths between description and evaluation, between theory and ideology.
Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, USA