Future Imperfect

Informationen zum Autor Jason P. Vest is an assistant professor in the University of Guam's Division of English & Applied Linguistics. He has published articles about Blade Runner, The West Wing, The X-Files, and Joanna Russ, as well as the book The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick. Phillip Lopate is a professor of English at Hofstra University who teaches in the graduate programs at Columbia, the New School, and Bennington. He is the editor of American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents until Now and author of several books, including Against Joie de Vivre, available in a Bison Books edition. Klappentext Analysis of the movies made out of Philip K. Dick's short stories Zusammenfassung Explores how filmmakers as diverse as Ridley Scott! Paul Verhoeven! Steven Spielberg! and Richard Linklater have each! in their turn! expanded! extrapolated! and diverged from Philip K. Dick's fiction when translating its powerful and challenging insights to the silver screen. Future Imperfect gauges how well the film adaptations of Dick's work have captured his unique vision. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Adapt This: Fiction into FilmAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the MoviesChapter 1 - More Human than Human: Blade RunnerChapter 2 - Memory Prime: Total RecallChapter 3 - Unburdening the Soul: Confessions d'un BarjoChapter 4 - Future War: ScreamersChapter 5 - Identity Theft: ImposterChapter 6 - Future Crime: Minority ReportChapter 7 - Money in the Bank: PaycheckChapter 8 - Schizophrenia on Demand: A Scanner DarklyConclusion - Roll Credits: The Films of Philip K. DickNotesBibliographyFilms CitedIndex

Klappentext
Analysis of the movies made out of Philip K. Dick's short stories

Zusammenfassung
Explores how filmmakers as diverse as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, and Richard Linklater have each, in their turn, expanded, extrapolated, and diverged from Philip K. Dick's fiction when translating its powerful and challenging insights to the silver screen. Future Imperfect gauges how well the film adaptations of Dick's work have captured his unique vision.

Inhalt
Foreword - Adapt This: Fiction into FilmAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the MoviesChapter 1 - More Human than Human: Blade RunnerChapter 2 - Memory Prime: Total RecallChapter 3 - Unburdening the Soul: Confessions d'un BarjoChapter 4 - Future War: ScreamersChapter 5 - Identity Theft: ImposterChapter 6 - Future Crime: Minority ReportChapter 7 - Money in the Bank: PaycheckChapter 8 - Schizophrenia on Demand: A Scanner DarklyConclusion - Roll Credits: The Films of Philip K. DickNotesBibliographyFilms CitedIndex

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