I recently had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful grounds of Clifton College to join their film society for a screening of Blade Runner and to subsequently give a lecture on the film and its horrific elements. This was part of the film society's season on science fiction and I am very grateful to the students and staff who welcomed me and gave me this opportunity to temporarily depart from Bond and explore this fascinating film. I really enjoyed discussing with the students some of the aesthetic, narrative and thematic elements of Blade Runner and linking these to the horror genre so that larger questions about the function of genre could be raised. The students brought lots of insightful comments to the discussion and I hope they found analysing Blade Runner as intriguing as I did.
Now it's time to get stuck into Bond again as I prepare for my conference presentation in November...
