Author Archive for: ‘Neil Bather’

Steve Macek, Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London, 2006. ISBN: 0 8166 4361 X US$22.95 (pb) 360pp (Review copy supplied by the University of Minnesota Press) Contemplating ‘urban nightmares’ while residing in a small New Zealand city seems to be a contradiction in terms. Certainly, the …

Will Brooker (ed), The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic. Wallflower Press, London & New York, 2005. ISBN: 1 904764 30 4 240pp £16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) As editor Will Brooker points out in the introduction to this collection of essays, Blade Runner is one of the most talked about, debated, and analysed films …