@inbook{3d30ce63d35747978732ee479f37b91b,
title = "From {"}Multiverse{"} to {"}Abramsverse{"}: Blade Runner, Star Trek, Multiplicity and the Authorizing of Cult/SF Worlds",
abstract = "Cult films inhabit four categories that are not mutually exclusive and may come into tension with one another. These categories depend on differing processes of cult development: world-based, auteur-based, star-based, and production-based. This chapter focuses on the first two, examining how world-based and auteur-based cults operate in relation to two exemplary science fiction (sf) texts, Blade Runner (1982) and the rebooted Star Trek (2009) franchise. What is so fascinating about auteur-based and world-based cults is that these potentials can be activated around the same series of texts — whether Star Trek or Blade Runner — and yet exist in tension with one another, as some fan audiences stress authorial vision while others emphasize the narrative universe that they love exploring, documenting, and speculating about. Cult/sf is not just a doubling of categories; cult sf really can mean different things to different (fan) readers.",
keywords = "Cult cinema, Cult film, Cult status, Blade Runner, Star Trek, Science fiction",
author = "Matthew Hills",
year = "2015",
month = jun,
day = "30",
doi = "10.5949/liverpool/9781781381830.003.0002",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781781381830",
series = "Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies ",
publisher = "Liverpool University Press",
number = "52",
pages = "21--37",
editor = "Telotte, {J.P. } and Gerald Duchovnay",
booktitle = "Science Fiction Double Feature",
address = "United Kingdom",
}