De Blade Runner a Blade Runner 2049: Ficciones del diseño, el diseño como ficción

  • Eduardo A. Russo
Keywords: film ; design ; science fiction ; art ; visual culture

Abstract

The article will examine Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017) in its relationships with the deployment of various aspects of design culture in their imagination of fictional worlds. Through a comparative analysis of both films, their context, their narrative and stylistics elements, within the frameword of the genre universe and the material culture involved in both cases, the passage between films will be explored from an audiovisual design paradigm, based on filmic technology tradition, to another environment, that exposes problems posed on a digital imaginary in cinema. As a bridge between both configurations, the cultures of design will be approached as fundamental contributions to the mise-en-scène of both films, which, while turning to design for structuring their worlds, incorporate dimensions of speculative design that are substancial part of his fictional proposals.

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Published
2022-05-16
How to Cite
A. Russo, E. (2022). De Blade Runner a Blade Runner 2049: Ficciones del diseño, el diseño como ficción. Cuadernos Del Centro De Estudios De Diseño Y Comunicación, (153). https://doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi153.6724