In this volume, almost two dozen essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film. Introduction 1(4) Judith B. Kerman SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS: BLADE RUNNER AS THOUGHT EXPERIMENT The Android as Doppelganger 4(12) Joseph Francavilla Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia 16(9) Judith B. Kerman Metahuman `Kipple' Or, Do Male Movie Makers Dream of Electric Women?: Speciesism and Sexism in Blade Runner 25(7) Marleen Barr Androids as a Device for Reflection on Personhood 32(8) Marilyn Gwaltney GENRE ISSUES: SOURCES AND SYNTHESIS The Cutting Edges of Blade Runner 40(13) Leonard G. Heldreth The New Eve: The Influence of Paradise Lost and Frankenstein on Blade Runner 53(13) David Desser Entropy, Energy, Empathy: Blade Runner and Detective Fiction 66(10) W. Russel Gray Philip K. Dick's Androids: Victimized Victimizers 76(14) Aaron Barlow FILM SOURCES AND ADAPTATION ISSUES ``There's Some of Me In You'': Blade Runner and the Adaptation of Science Fiction Literature into Film 90(13) Brooks Landon Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner: ``They Did Sight Stimulation On My Brain'' 103(7) Gregg Rickman Race, Space and Class: The Politics of the SF Film from Metropolis to Blade Runner 110(14) David Desser Primitivism in the Movies of Ridley Scott: Alien & Blade Runner 124(8) C. Carter Colwell Script to Screen: Blade Runner in Perspective 132(22) William M. Kolb Blade Runner Film Notes 154(24) William M. Kolb AESTHETICS AND THE CREATION OF SCIENCE FICTION WORLDS A Silver-Paper Unicorn 178(7) Rebecca Warner Subverting the Disaffected City: Cityscape in Blade Runner 185(11) Steve Carper The Music in Blade Runner 196(5) Andrew Stiller Creative Synergy and the Art of World Creation 201(11) John J. Pierce Crashing the Gates of Insight: Blade Runner 212(17) Jack Boozer, Jr. Bibliography 229(44) William M. Kolb Bibliography Addendum 273(21) William M. Kolb Reconstructing the Director's Cut 294(8) William M. Kolb Blade Runner Credits 302(6) ``Memories...You're Talkin' About Memories'' Re-retrofitting Blade Runner 308(6) Leonard G. Heldreth Index 314(16) Contributors 330