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Fritz Lang's Metropolis: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)


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The volume provides a broad range of materials and resources for the study of Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis, including both well-known, previously-published critical essays and contributions appearing for the first time here. Lang's film has justifiably become an icon for the complexities of Weimar culture. Among the important general issues it also raises are the relation between ideology and art, the status and authorship of the film text in the entertainment market, the city, the construction of gender, the relation between the human body and the machine in modernity, and the relation between mass and high culture. Minden and Bachmann provide a two-part introduction which provides a context for what follows: Bachmann's part deals with the genesis, production, and contemporary reception of the film, while Minden's defines the problems posed by the text and reviews the solutions to theseproblems as proposed by later generations of critics. The first part of the book proper then provides selected contemporary reviews, commentary by Fritz Lang and others involved in the making of the film, and extracts from Thea von Harbou's original novel. In the second part, eight modern scholars provide fresh essays on the genesis, promotion, and reception of the film. Approximately half of the material in the volume has never before appeared in print.The volume will appeal to students of German, film, cultural and intellectual history, and social theory. Michael Minden is University Lecturer in German at Cambridge University and a fellow of Jesus College. Holger Bachmann received his Ph.D. from Cambridge on Arthur Schnitzler and film.

Table of Contents:
Introduction I: The Production and Contemporary Reception of Metropolis - Holger Bachmann Introduction II: The Critical Reception of Metropolis - Michael Minden Documents: The Novel and the Screen Play Documents: Ufa Production Reports Documents: Reviews The City of the Future--A Film of Ruins. On the Work of the Munich Film Museum - Enno Patalas Innocence Restored: Reading and Rereading a Classic - Thomas Elsaesser Restoration, Genealogy and Palimpsests: On Some Historiographical Questions - Giorgio Bertellini Structures of Narrativity in Fritz Lang's Metropolis - Alan Williams Science, Machines, and Gender - Ludmilla Jordanova The Vamp and the Machine: Fritz Lang's Metropolis - Andreas Huyssen The Mediation of Technology and Gender: Metropolis, Nazism, Modernism - R.L. Rutsky Canning the Uncanny: The Construction of Visual Desire in Metropolis - Andrew J. Webber The Imitation Game: Paralysis and Response in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Contemporary Critiques of Technology - Julia Dover Metropolis--The Archetypal Version: Sentimentality and Self-Control in the Reception of the Film - Ben Morgan

About the Author :
Michael Minden is University Lecturer in German at Cambridge University, and a fellow of Jesus College. Holger Bachmann received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1997 with a dissertation on Arthur Schnitzler and film.

Review :
A must-have acquisition... Of great value for the contemporary and modern information related to the film's production, distribution and reconstruction. Combines the perspectives of the archives and of film theory in exemplary ways....The anthology is bound to be of great interest to anyone teaching German film. ... a large and substantial gathering of high quality academic film criticism.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781571131225
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Camden House Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 340
  • Sub Title: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1571131221
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
  • Weight: 1 gr


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