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Analysis of the movies made out of Philip K. Dick's short stories

Table of Contents

Foreword - Adapt This: Fiction into FilmAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the MoviesChapter 1 - More Human than Human: Blade RunnerChapter 2 - Memory Prime: Total RecallChapter 3 - Unburdening the Soul: Confessions d'un BarjoChapter 4 - Future War: ScreamersChapter 5 - Identity Theft: ImposterChapter 6 - Future Crime: Minority ReportChapter 7 - Money in the Bank: PaycheckChapter 8 - Schizophrenia on Demand: A Scanner DarklyConclusion - Roll Credits: The Films of Philip K. DickNotesBibliographyFilms CitedIndex

About the Author

Jason P. Vest is an assistant professor in the University of Guam’s Division of English & Applied Linguistics. He has published articles about Blade Runner, The West Wing, The X-Files, and Joanna Russ, as well as the book The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick. Phillip Lopate is a professor of English at Hofstra University who teaches in the graduate programs at Columbia, the New School, and Bennington. He is the editor of American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents until Now and author of several books, including Against Joie de Vivre, available in a Bison Books edition.

Reviews

"Among the films adapted from novels and stories by Philip K. Dick are Blade Runner, Confessions d'un Barjo, Minority Report, and most recently Richard Linklatter's A Scanner Darkly. Vest discusses these interpretations of Dick's sci-fi ruminations on the paths of human nature in an increasingly technological world; more often then not, he points out, those paths lead to paranoia and other dark states of mind. Eight substantial criticisms illustrate how and how well each film expands, extrapolates and departs from Dick's singular vision."--Reference and Research Book News