As I remember, the photographs in _Blade Runner_ serve more as a determinate
ground for normalcy than as momento mori. Perhaps you could explain.
Does anyone remember the opening to the TV show _Family_ with the family
photograph as the centerpiece? The photo as the determinate ground for
normalcy seems Victorian in its heritage does it not? But how many war
movies, love stories, . . . treat the photo in just this way?
Since I'm on the topic, has anyone noticed how old technology often stands
as the determinate ground for normalcy in relationship to new technology?
Or how the photograph and the painting become the texture of the film in
much the same way that
nature stands to a Romantic poem?
JMC
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