A Companion to Fritz Lang
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-470-67097-2 (ISBN)
A Companion to Fritz Lang “Fritz Lang’s movie-making spans a major part of the history of cinema, across genres, styles, and national contexts. With smartness and sharpness, the essays in this essential volume come from many angles to capture the richness of Lang’s cinema and bring great insight to its study.”
Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, NYU
Fritz Lang’s influence on cinema cannot be overstated, with a career that stretched from the silent era in Germany to the decline of the Hollywood studio system in the late 1950s, from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, from Depression America to the McCarthy era. One of the best known émigrés from Germany’s school of Expressionism, Lang is also credited with influencing the emergence of film noir.
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. Addressing much of Lang’s voluminous body of work, from Metropolis and M, to lesser-known titles such as Western Union and Clash by Night, this volume offers a superb overview of Lang’s cinema with revealing insights into his enduring influence on directors such as Godard, Scorsese, Chabrol, and Tarantino. The two dozen essays presented here are an unrivaled and up-to-the-minute assessment of the prolific and resilient life and vision of one of cinema’s greatest auteurs.
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, Professor 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).
Contributors viii
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.1.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors |
| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 180 x 253 mm |
| Gewicht | 1243 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-470-67097-5 / 0470670975 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-67097-2 / 9780470670972 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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