A Companion to Fritz Lang
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
978-1-118-60246-1 (ISBN)
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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
Joe McElhaney is Professor of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA, as well as in the Theater Program at CUNY s Graduate Center. A seasoned commentator on film, media, and the arts, Prof McElhaney is author of The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli (2006), Albert Maysles (2009), and editor of Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment (2009).
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Joe McElhaney Act One: Looking, Power, Interpretation 2. Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock Raymond Bellour 3. While Not Looking: The Failure to See and Know in Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Frances Guerin 4. Symptom, Exhibition, Fear: Representations of Terror in the German Work of Fritz Lang Nicole Brenez 5. Spies: Post-War Paranoia Goes to the Movies Paul Dobryden 6. Identifying the Suspect: Lang s M and the Trajectories of Film Criticism Olga Solovieva 7. The Medium s Re-Vision (Or the Doctor as Disease, Diagnostic, and Cure) David Phelps Act Two: Myths, Legends and Tragic Visions 8. Metaphysics of Finitude: Der mude tod and the Crisis of Historicism Nicholas Baer 9. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura Chris Fujiwara 10. Lang contra Wagner: Die Nibelungen as Anti-Adaptation Thomas Leitch 11. Redemption of Revenge: Die Nibelungen Steve Choe 12. Furious Union: Fritz Lang and the American West Phil Wagner 13. It Was a Horserace Sorta: Fortunes of Rancho Notorious Tom Conley Act Three: Matters of Form 14. Beyond Destiny and Design: Camera Movement in Fritz Lang s German Films Daniel Morgan 15. Fritz Lang: Object and Thing in the German Films Brigitte Peucker 16. A Stranger in the House: Fritz Lang s Fury and the Cinema of Exile Anton Kaes 17. Fritz Lang s Modern Character: You Only Live Once and the Depth of Surface Will Scheibel 18. Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the Frame of Performance Steven Rybin 19. I d Like to Own That Painting: Lang, Cezanne and the Art of Omission Vinzenz Hediger 20. Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat Pamela Robertson Wojcik 21. Metropolis and the Figuration of Eidos Paolo Bertetto Act Four: Rediscoveries and Returns 22. Not the End: Fritz Lang s War Lutz Koepnick 23. Classic(al)Lang: Conflicting Impulses in Ministry of Fear Jakob Isak Nielsen 24. Multiple Reflections: The Woman in the Mirror in Fritz Lang s Cloak and Dagger Doug Dibbern 25. Suspended Modernity: On the Last Five Films of Fritz Lang Carlos Losilla 26. The Limit: House by the River Adrian Martin 27. Looking for a Path: Fritz Lang and Clash by Night Joe McElhaney 28. Notes on Human Desire (Lang, Renoir, Zola) Sam Ishii-Gonzales 29. Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering Woman in the Moon Tom Gunning and Katharina Loew Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.4.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 371 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-118-60246-3 / 1118602463 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-60246-1 / 9781118602461 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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