Fritz Lang's Metropolis : Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
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A must-have acquisition... Of great value for the contemporary and modern information related to the film's production, distribution and reconstruction. CARL BENNETT 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. GERMAN QUARTERLY ... a large and substantial gathering of high quality academic film criticism. UTOPIAN STUDIES
Book Description
Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis 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. This volume provides a broad range of materials and resources for the study of Lang's film, including both well-known, previously published critical essays and contributions appearing for the first time here. The editors provide a two-part introduction that furnishes context for what follows: Bachmann's part deals with thegenesis, production, and contemporary reception of the film, while Minden's defines the problems posed by the text and reviews thesolutions to these problems as proposed by later generations of critics.The first part of the book proper includes selected contemporaryreviews, commentary by Fritz Lang and others involved in the making ofthe film, and extracts from Thea von Harbou's original novel. In thesecond part, eight modern scholars provide fresh essays on the genesis,promotion, and reception of the film. Approximately half of the materialin the volume has never before appeared in print. The volume will appealto students of German, film, cultural and intellectual history, andsocial theory.Michael Minden is University Lecturer in German atCambridge University and a fellow of Jesus College. Holger Bachmannreceived his Ph.D. from Cambridge on Arthur Schnitzler and film.
Fritz Lang's Metropolis : Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture),Michael Minden,Holger Bachmann,Camden House,1571131469,Cinema/Film: Book,European - German,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,General,Performing Arts,Plays / Drama,Film theory & criticism,German,Literary studies: from c 1900 -,Performing Arts / Film / General
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