Lesson Five
VIEWView Blade Runner
Take notes in your process journal as you view the film
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Blade Runner (1982)
Based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), it has many influences from the Film Noir Genre, it is most clearly associated with the Science Fiction Genre. We will approach Blade Runner from a number of different theoretical and historical perspectives. Why? Well, there is more than one way to view and understand a film. As you know from your Theory of Knowledge course, there are different kinds of knowledge. Some knowledge about films is aesthetic - films are examined to see how they function as examples of Art. But, knowledge about film can also be ideological in nature - more focused on how the film is reflective of the society and culture from which it came, rather than how the world of the film is created. We will try several different approaches to one film to model different ways you may choose to approach a film. Blade Runner vs. Metropolis
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