Fritz Lang's Metropolis: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1571131221 ISBN 13 : 9781571131225

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2000

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571131221
• ISBN 13: 9781571131225
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Éditeur: Minden Michael, Bachmann Holger
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible