"More Human than Human": Identity Issues and the Representations of Humanity in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
Hames, Gaëlle
Promotor(s) : Delville, Michel
Date of defense : 27-Aug-2019/6-Sep-2019 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/8090
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Title : | "More Human than Human": Identity Issues and the Representations of Humanity in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 |
Author : | Hames, Gaëlle |
Date of defense : | 27-Aug-2019/6-Sep-2019 |
Advisor(s) : | Delville, Michel |
Committee's member(s) : | Viehöver, Vera
Vanden Berghe, Kristine |
Language : | English |
Number of pages : | 99 |
Keywords : | [en] Blade Runner [en] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [en] Philip K. Dick [en] Dick [en] Ridley Scott [en] Denis Villeneuve [en] androids [en] humanity [en] humanness [en] otherness [en] ethics [en] ethical issues [en] movie [en] novel [en] book [en] posthumanism [en] discrimination [en] artificial [en] electric sheep [en] K. Dick [en] director's cut [en] Villeneuve [en] Scott |
Discipline(s) : | Arts & humanities > Literature Social & behavioral sciences, psychology > Communication & mass media |
Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
Degree: | Master en communication multilingue, à finalité spécialisée en communication interculturelle et des organisations internationales |
Faculty: | Master thesis of the Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres |
Abstract
[en] This dissertation studies Philip K. Dick's famous novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and the movies that are based on it, namely "Blade Runner" by Ridley Scott, and "Blade Runner 2049" by Denis Villeneuve. In this post-apocalyptic universe, humans create artificial beings (the androids, or replicants). The aim of this dissertation is to analyse how the authors question the definition of humanity and raise ethical issues.
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