Fritz Lang's Metropolis : cinematic views of technology and fear /
edited by Michael Minden and Holger Bachmann.
- [Rochester, N.Y.] : Woodbridge : Camden House ; Boydell & Brewer [distributor], 2002.
- xi, 326 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.
- Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture .
- Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture. .
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.