Artikel über DVD-Versionen

So, damit hier mal wieder ein wenig Schwung in die Bude kommt... Bin grade über einen Artikel gestolpert, der für unsere DVD-Diskussion interessant sein könnte:

All Our Variant Futures: The Many Narratives of Blade Runner: The Final Cut. By: Brooker, Will. Popular Communication, Apr-Jun 2009, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p79-91

This article discusses the 2007 release of Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) as a “Five-Disc Collector's Edition.” It explores the changes to the film's narrative and characterization implied by the director's preferred “Final Cut,” but argues that the 2007 release's most significant aspect is (in contrast to other franchises like Lucas's Star Wars films) its' embracing of variant edits, source material, alternate, and deleted scenes as equally valid within canon, and its' refusal of hierarchies of meaning that would privilege one version of the film over another. The article further proposes that this five-disc package constructs Blade Runner as a fictional world with some parallels to contemporary transmedia franchises, through which the “Final Cut” itself, following the model of video games, constitutes one narrative path among a network of possible alternate routes.