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Article: The cinema of human obsolescence. (science fiction films and society) (Column)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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THE RELEASE of the director's cut of Ridley Scott's masterful 1982 science-fiction film "Blade Runner" has reminded audiences not only of the centrality of this picture to the sci-fi of the 1980s and 1990s, but of the importance of the movie in its embodiment of ideas becoming crucial to debates about the displacement of human beings in contemporary culture and society. In so many respects, the film looks remarkably prescient. At least two major studies of Los Angeles (most notably Mike Davis' City of Quartz) cite "Blade Runner" for its insights into L.A. as a fragmented Third World metropolis, militarized and markedly divided on class and racial lines, retrofitted with ...
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