A Companion to Fritz Lang

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