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Fritz Lang's Metropolis : cinematic views of technology and fear / edited by Michael Minden and Holger Bachmann.

Contributor(s): Minden, M. R. (Michael R.) | Bachmann, Holger, 1969-Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in German literature, linguistics and culturePublication details: [Rochester, N.Y.] : Woodbridge : Camden House ; Boydell & Brewer [distributor], 2002Description: xi, 326 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781571131461 (pbk.) :; 1571131469 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Metropolis (Motion picture)DDC classification: 791.4'372
Contents:
Introduction I: The Production and Contemporary Reception of Metropolis - Holger Bachmann; Introduction II: The Critical Reception of Metropolis - Michael Minden; Part 1 Materials and documentation; The Novel and the Screen Play; Production Reports; Reviews; Part 2. Metamorphoses of "Metropolis; 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;
Part 3. Classic texts and context; 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; Part 4. "Metropolis" now; 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;
Summary: Providing a broad range of materials and resources for the study of Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolis (1927), this volume includes both standard critical essays and contributions appearing for the first time.
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Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-316) and index.

Introduction I: The Production and Contemporary Reception of Metropolis - Holger Bachmann; Introduction II: The Critical Reception of Metropolis - Michael Minden; Part 1 Materials and documentation; The Novel and the Screen Play; Production Reports; Reviews; Part 2. Metamorphoses of "Metropolis; 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;

Part 3. Classic texts and context; 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; Part 4. "Metropolis" now; 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;

Providing a broad range of materials and resources for the study of Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolis (1927), this volume includes both standard critical essays and contributions appearing for the first time.

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