Constellations: Minority Report by D. Harlan Wilson

(Auteur, 2022)

Reviewed by Graham Andrews

Of the making of films based upon the works of Philip K. Dick, there has been…well, not so many, of late. I know their titles, as do you, you, and especially you. For the purposes of this review, however, it would be hard not to reference Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (1990), and—has it really been twenty years?—Minority Report (2002). And the literature about PDK (for short) threatens to overwhelm the literature by PDK, if it has not already done so. This Liverpool University Press monograph (C: MR ditto) by Professor D. Harlan Wilson (Professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus) considers the Steven Spielberg film version of MR, in depth, width, and not-inordinate length (128 pages).

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