A Companion to Fritz Lang

Herausgegeben von McElhaney, Joe

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14567097000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1239g
• ISBN-13: 9780470670972
• ISBN-10: 0470670975
• Artikelnr.: 38012017

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

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