On "Blade Runner"

Four critical essays on the 1982 Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner."

In four critical essays, Hope Anderson desconstructs the production design, classical allusions, literary source, and Japanese cultural influences in the 1982 Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner," providing new insights into what is regarded by many as the greatest science fiction film of all time. Among the topics discussed are downtown Los Angeles and its architecture, the influence of Greek tragedy on the character Roy Batty, the meaning of Japanese cultural elements, and a comparison between the film and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" the Philip K. Dick novel on which it is based.

Hope Anderson is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Japan, she graduated Magna cum Laude in History and East Asian Studies at Wellesley College and was a Visiting Undergraduate Scholar in Japanese Studies at Harvard University. She pursued graduate studies in Japanese History at Berkeley before relocating to Los Angeles, where she began her film career as a script reader and copy writer. Her documentaries include "Jim Thompson, Silk King," and "Under the Hollywood Sign."