Adapting Literature

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.01.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Strategies
  5. Film and Visual Representation
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Notes
  8. Resources
  9. Appendices

Blade Runner Redux: Teaching a Sci-Fi Meta-Art Classic

Clary W. Carleton

Published September 2007

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Notes

1. Brooks Landon, "'There's Some of Me In You': Blade Runner and the Adaptation of Science Fiction Literature into Film," in Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Ed. Judith B. Kerman (Bowling Green OH: Bowling Green State UP, 1991), 92.

2. George Mann, ed., The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001), 6.

3. Patricia S. Warrick, "Mechanical Mirrors, the Double, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987), 118.

4. Margaret Talbot, "Duped," The New Yorker (2 July 2007)

5. Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (New York: Ballantine, 1968), 47.

6. Warrick, 121.

7. adapted from Warrick, 124.

8. Dick, 156

9. Dick, 5

10. Warrick, 131.

11. Dudley Andrew, Concepts in Film Theory (New York: Oxford UP, 1984), 101.

12. Andrew, 99.

13. Landon, 99.

14. Landon, 99.

15. Keith M. Booker, Alternate Americas: Science Fiction and American Culture (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006), 182.

16. Booker, 178.

17. David Desser, "Race, Space and Class: The Politics of the SF Film from Metropolis to Blade Runner" in Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Ed. Judith B. Kerman (Bowling Green OH: Bowling Green State UP, 1991), 112.

18. Paul Fry, "Crime in Fiction, History, Region, Social Outlook" (talk presented at the Intensive Session of the Yale National Initiative, New Haven, CT, 9 July 2007).

19. Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994), 125.

20. Paul M. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (New York: HarperPrism, 1996), 74.

21. Marshall Deutelbaum, "Memory/Visual Design: The Remembered Sights of Blade Runner." Literature/Film Quarterly 17:1 (1989): 69.

22. Alan B. Teasley and Ann Wilder, Reel Conversations: Reading Films with Young Adults (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1996)

23. David Desser, "Blade Runner: Science Fiction and Transcendence." Literature/Film Quarterly 13:3 (1985): 173.

24. R. Morrision, "Casablanca Meets Stars Wars: The Blakean Dialectics of Blade Runner." Literature/Film Quarterly 1 (1990): 2-10.

Comments:

Jennifer Mcdonald

January 1, 2018 at 11:09 am

Helpful overview

I've been planning updates to our dystopic literature unit and found this unit very helpful. I had never head of DADES, and was looking for some fresh titles and connections to film. I had also been looking for a way to use Bladerunner, and am thrilled to see it broken down so well for me that I could likely utilize this in the upcoming semester and feel prepared (as there is never time to plan in my world). I'd love a thorough training/workshop on using dystopic literature in class, if one is ever offered. It is paramount that we bring the themes of such works to the future generations.

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