Man/Machine/Nature Oppositions

• entropy/empathy

• living machines (deconstructing the categories)

• cityscape vs. blue sky and end of 1982 version

• replicants/humans

• hunting and hunted

• racism/ discrimination analogies

• doubles

• cityscape

• authority figures

• class divisions

• advertising

• misogyny: characters, narrative structure (links with film noir: Spider woman, woman questioned)

• thematic (women as other other)

• the gaze

• sexual scene with Rachel

• paternity and maternity (Frankenstein issues)

• eyes / pictures/ mirrors

• hunting

• Snow White

• chess

• origami

• Eden/ Satan: Miltonic references

• Animals

• Diagetic/ non-diagetic (breakdown of distinctions between story world and non story world)

• Music vs. sound
• Sound signatures: themes, leit motifs

• Film Noir

• Other SF film: past and future

• foreign: cityspeak

• dialogue: cliches, voice-over, lyricism

• written: neon

• Baty or Deckard

• Campbell quest ;

• making of the film

• versions of the film

• relation of film to Dick's work and vision

• gaffes/ errors

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