Subtitle
An Analysis of Blade Runner, Fight Club, and Miami Vice
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
First Advisor
Bohlinger, Vincent
Document Type
Thesis
School
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department
Communications
Date of Original Version
5-2009
Abstract
Analyzes how Nietzsche's philosophy of the Ubermensch and Baudrillard's ideas about simulation and hyperreality apply to the journeys undertaken by the protagonists of the films, Blade Runner, Fight Club, and Miami Vice. Explores how the protagonists adapt and master their unique worlds through self-awareness, self-reliance, and strength resulting from radical self-exposure to hardship.
Recommended Citation
Pate, Anthony, "Nietzsche's Ubermensch in the Hyperreal Flux" (2009). Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview. 15.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/etd/15
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