Fritz Lang's Metropolis : cinematic visions of technology and fear
Providing a broad range of materials and resources for the study of Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolist (1972), this volume includes both standard critical essays and contributions appearing for the first time
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781571131225, 9781571131461, 1571131221, 1571131469
43919677
Introduction I: The Production and Contemporary Reception of Metropolis - Holger BachmannIntroduction II: The Critical Reception of Metropolis - Michael MindenDocuments: The Novel and the Screen PlayDocuments: Ufa Production ReportsDocuments: ReviewsThe City of the Future--A Film of Ruins. On the Work of the Munich Film Museum - Enno PatalasInnocence Restored: Reading and Rereading a Classic - Thomas ElsaesserRestoration, Genealogy and Palimpsests: On Some Historiographical Questions - Giorgio BertelliniStructures of Narrativity in Fritz Lang's Metropolis - Alan WilliamsScience, Machines, and Gender - Ludmilla JordanovaThe Vamp and the Machine: Fritz Lang's Metropolis - Andreas HuyssenThe Mediation of Technology and Gender: Metropolis, Nazism, Modernism - R.L. RutskyCanning the Uncanny: The Construction of Visual Desire in Metropolis - Andrew J. WebberThe Imitation Game: Paralysis and Response in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Contemporary Critiques of Technology - Julia DoverMetropolis--The Archetypal Version: Sentimentality and Self-Control in the Reception of the Film - Ben Morgan