Texts

Introduction: Vision and Subjectivity in Blade Runner

Internet Movie Database (imdb)  or go directly to imdb on Blade Runner

Broglio's Blade Runner Summary

Blade Runner Links including essays on BR and scripts of the movie
While not all the essays referenced on this site are good, a few are worth looking at:

• "Image is Everything: Lacan and Blade Runner"  A good basic look at Lacan along the lines we are discussing in class.  If you don't understand Lacan, try reading this first.
• "Eye Disbelieve" Good on Rachel's memories related to identity and a few other points.
• "Creator and Created: Frankenstein and Blade Runner"  For those interested in the connection, not a great essay, but many points worth pursuing in better depth.
• Try submitting your own essay to this site based on your essay for our class.

Class Notes on Blade Runner & Lacan

Blade Runner Essay  Due Jan. 26th

• Burke's Sublime and the Beautiful selection of optics related to aesthetics

 
• What is Sublime and What is Beautiful?  Can you tell the difference in these landscapes? Pick a few that fit each category.

 
• Class notes on "Scopic Regimes" and Connecting Descartes's work with Linear Perspective

 
•  Kodak's web site: Top 10 Techniques and Beginning Composition

 
• Notes on Galassi's "Before Photography"

 
• Wordsworth Poems

 
• I Wander Lonely as a Cloud. Contrst with Dorothy Wordsworth's 4/15/1802 journal entry
• Penrith Beacon section from The Prelude.  Sublime or anti-sublime?
• Mount Snowdon section from The Prelude. How is this the Sublime?

 
• Dorothy Wordsworth. Selections from her Journals.  Note her different take on landscapes similar to what Jaquiline Labbe discusses in Romantic Visualities.

 
• 15th April 1802; A Field of Daffodils
• 22nd Dec. 1801; Misc. Observations

 
• John Clare. Note his concern for open communal land.

 
• the mores
• The Lament of Swordy Well
• Background on Clare

 
• Charlotte Smith, selection from "Beachy Head"

 
• "Landscape and the Kodak Moment" a comparison

 
• Picturesque Project  Due Feb. 16th  We'll have a class discussion of projects.

 

• Research Topics

 
• The Research Project

 

• What does it mean to be Cyberpunk?

 
• The Romantic Circles MOO class

 
• Representing Non-physical Space Project