What's So Bad About Being A Replicant?
On the Media | Oct 6, 2017
When Blade Runner first came out in 1982, critics were confused by the plot and the bleak view of the future it presented. Thirty-five years later, it's considered a sci-fi classic that influenced a generation of movies with its aesthetics, human-like androids and questions about artificial intelligence.
With the big-budget sequel, Blade Runner 2049, in theaters this weekend, Brooke talks with Alison Landsberg, a professor of history and cultural studies at George Mason University, and the author of Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture, which she first started considering in the context of Blade Runner.
