Difference between revisions of "Reflections in a Silver Eye: Lens and Mirror in BLADE RUNNER"
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| − | Shetley Vernon, and Alissa Ferguson. "Reflections in a Silver Eye: Lens and Mirror in Blade Runner." ''Science Fiction Studies'' #83 = 28.1 (March 2001): 66-76.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4240951?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents] | + | UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
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| + | Shetley Vernon, and Alissa Ferguson. "Reflections in a Silver Eye: Lens and Mirror in Blade Runner."''' ''Science Fiction Studies'' #83 = 28.1 (March 2001): 66-76.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4240951?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents] | ||
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| − | ''Blade Runner'' is a film centrally concerned with vision. Prostheses of vision — the Voigt-Kampff test and the Esper machine — permit detective Rick Deckard to probe physical and even mental space, and extend his search for android "replicants" into distant rooms and into the minds of the characters | + | ''Blade Runner'' is a film centrally concerned with vision. Prostheses of vision — the Voigt-Kampff test and the Esper machine — permit detective Rick Deckard to probe physical and even mental space, and extend his search for android "replicants" into distant rooms and into the minds of the characters [...]. In the Esper sequence,[http://mattwallin.com/mattwallincom/2011/9/24/esper-machine-blade-runner-1982.html] Deckard analyzes the photograph cherished by the replicant Leon, an analysis that turns on the presence of a convex mirror at the center of the image. This photograph echoes the mirror seen in Jan van Eyck’s [...] ''The Arnolfini Portrait''. Both mirrors are signs of artistic self-consciousness, [... indicating] an extended meditation on pictorial or cinematic vision. In ''Blade Runner'', the form of vision embodied by the Esper machine — which is characterized as probing, dominating, and ultimately lethal — is played off against a mode of vision tentatively but crucially present in the moment when Rachael’s photograph "comes alive" in Deckard’s hands, a mode of vision that turns on imaginative empathy. (p. 76)[https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/abstracts/a83.htm#shetley] |
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION Shetley Vernon, and Alissa Ferguson. "Reflections in a Silver Eye: Lens and Mirror in Blade Runner." Science Fiction Studies #83 = 28.1 (March 2001): 66-76.[1]
From the Abstract. --
Blade Runner is a film centrally concerned with vision. Prostheses of vision — the Voigt-Kampff test and the Esper machine — permit detective Rick Deckard to probe physical and even mental space, and extend his search for android "replicants" into distant rooms and into the minds of the characters [...]. In the Esper sequence,[2] Deckard analyzes the photograph cherished by the replicant Leon, an analysis that turns on the presence of a convex mirror at the center of the image. This photograph echoes the mirror seen in Jan van Eyck’s [...] The Arnolfini Portrait. Both mirrors are signs of artistic self-consciousness, [... indicating] an extended meditation on pictorial or cinematic vision. In Blade Runner, the form of vision embodied by the Esper machine — which is characterized as probing, dominating, and ultimately lethal — is played off against a mode of vision tentatively but crucially present in the moment when Rachael’s photograph "comes alive" in Deckard’s hands, a mode of vision that turns on imaginative empathy. (p. 76)[3]
