A Companion to Fritz Lang
WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
1. Auflage Januar 2015
624 Seiten, Hardcover
Handbuch/Nachschlagewerk
Kurzbeschreibung
A Companion to Fritz Lang offers the first full-scale collection of scholarship available in English on one of the most important filmmakers of all time. Over two dozen essays add up to an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of Fritz Lang's prolific and resilient life and vision. Keynote commentators offer a range of angles on Lang's work, including some rarely translated into English, such as Nicole Brenez and Paolo Berletto.
This collection of critical essays offers an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of the prolific and resilient life and vision of one of cinema's greatest auteurs.
* The first edited collection of essays on Fritz Lang's body of work in over thirty years
* A comprehensive assessment of one of cinema's most influential figures
* Brings together key scholars, including Tom Gunning and Chris Fujiwara, to share their latest insights
* Features translated contributions from writers rarely rendered in English such as Nicole Brenez and Paolo Berletto
* Offers multinational and multi-perspectival analysis of Lang's oeuvre, including all his key films
Acknowledgments xiv
1 Introduction 1
Joe McElhaney
Part One Looking, Power, Interpretation 31
2 Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock 33
Raymond Bellour
3 While Not Looking: The Failure to See and Know in Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 43
Frances Guerin
4 Symptom, Exhibition, Fear: Representations of Terror in the German Work of Fritz Lang 63
Nicole Brenez
5 Spies: Postwar Paranoia Goes to the Movies 76
Paul Dobryden
6 Identifying the Suspect: Lang's M and the Trajectories of Film Criticism 94
Olga Solovieva
7 The Medium's Re-Vision: (Or the Doctor as Disease, Diagnostic, and Cure) 114
David Phelps
Part Two Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions 139
8 Metaphysics of Finitude: Der müde Tod and the Crisis of Historicism 141
Nicholas Baer
9 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura 161
Chris Fujiwara
10 Lang contra Wagner: Die Nibelungen as Anti-Adaptation 176
Thomas Leitch
11 Redemption of Revenge: Die Nibelungen 195
Steve Choe
12 Furious Union: Fritz Lang and the American West 219
Phil Wagner
13 "It Was a Horserace Sorta": Fortunes of Rancho Notorious 242
Tom Conley
Part Three Matters of Form 257
14 Beyond Destiny and Design: Camera Movement in Fritz Lang's German Films 259
Daniel Morgan
15 Fritz Lang: Object and Thing in the German Films 279
Brigitte Peucker
16 A Stranger in the House: Fritz Lang's Fury and the Cinema of Exile 300
Anton Kaes
17 Fritz Lang's Modern Character: You Only Live Once and the Depth of Surface 322
Will Scheibel
18 Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the Frame of Performance 340
Steven Rybin
19 "I'd Like to Own That Painting": Lang, Cézanne, and the Art of Omission 358
Vinzenz Hediger
20 Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat 371
Pamela Robertson Wojcik
21 Metropolis and the Figuration of Eidos 392
Paolo Bertetto
Part Four Rediscoveries and Returns 413
22 Not the End: Fritz Lang's War 415
Lutz Koepnick
23 Classic(al) Lang: Conflicting Impulses in Ministry of Fear 430
Jakob Isak Nielsen
24 Multiple Reflections: The Woman in the Mirror in Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger 458
Doug Dibbern
25 Suspended Modernity: On the Last Five Films of Fritz Lang 474
Carlos Losilla
26 The Limit: House by the River 494
Adrian Martin
27 Looking for a Path: Fritz Lang and Clash by Night 514
Joe McElhaney
28 Notes on Human Desire (Lang, Renoir, Zola) 536
Sam Ishii-Gonzales
29 Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering Woman in the Moon 554
Tom Gunning and Katharina Loew
Index 587
Review copy sent on 24.12.14 to 25fps
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Review request 5/6/2013 - Katinka Klaas - MEDIEN wissenschaft
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