Ridley Scott’s Dystopia Meets Ronald Reagan’s AmericaClass Conflict and Political Disclosure in Blade Runner: The Final Cut

  1. Fabián Orán Llarena 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Journal:
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

ISSN: 0211-5913

Year of publication: 2015

Issue Title: “Indias from Afar”: Narrating the Indian Diaspora

Issue: 70

Pages: 156-168

Type: Article

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Abstract

Blade Runner has been the object of multiple inquiries over the last three decades. However, this essay analyzes the socio-political discourse of the text, one aspect yet to be elucidated. Taking as basis the 1992 re-edited version (Blade Runner: The Final Cut), the essay studies the film as a critical and contextualized response to Ronald Reagan’s presidency (1981-1989). The essay scrutinizes how the materiality of the socio-economic system presented in the film, and the discourses that revolve around it, embody a critical representation of the policy-making and cultural discourse of Reaganism. Thus, the ensuing text characterizes the film as a (counter) narrative that deconstructs the conservative ideology of the 1980s.

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