Format:
1 online resource (624 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118587232
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors Series
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Intro -- A Companion to Fritz Lang -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part One: Looking, Power, Interpretation -- Part Two: Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions -- Part Three: Matters of Form -- Part Four: Rediscoveries and Returns -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part One Looking, Power, Interpretation -- Chapter 2 Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 While Not Looking: The Failure to See and Know in Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse -- Other Critics, Other Senses -- Lang and Popular Cinema in Weimar Germany -- Lighting and Mise-en-Scène -- Parallel Editing and the Blindness to Events Unfolding Simultaneously -- Mabuse, the "Viennese Psychoanalyst" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Symptom, Exhibition, Fear: Representations of Terror in the German Work of Fritz Lang -- A Question of Iconography -- Speculative Qualities of a Popular Form -- Representation of the Cause, Dispersal of the Body -- The System of Terror: Recapitulation -- Gauging the Image: The Historic Function of Representation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Spies: Postwar Paranoia Goes to the Movies -- Enemies on All Sides -- Intrigue in the Industry -- Mass Cultural Invasion -- Conclusion: Spies' Cold War -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Identifying the Suspect: Lang's M and the Trajectories of Film Criticism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 The Medium's Re-Vision: (Or the Doctor as Disease, Diagnostic, and Cure) -- Dispelled Spells -- The State of Hysteria -- A Medium is the Message -- The Resurrected Vision -- The Secret of the Open Door -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Part Two Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions -- Chapter 8 Metaphysics of Finitude: Der müde Tod and the Crisis of Historicism
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Allegorizing -- Exhausting -- Returning -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 28 Notes on Human Desire (Lang, Renoir, Zola) -- Lang -- Zola -- Renoir -- Lang -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 29 Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering Woman in the Moon -- Preface: The Enigma of Woman in the Moon -- In the Shadow of Metropolis -- Space Rockets and the Narrative of Technology -- The Production of Woman in the Moon -- Initial Reception of Woman in the Moon -- The Earth as Viewed from the Moon: Outer Space as the Vision of Modernity -- The Space of Technology -- The Launch -- Aftermath and Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- End User License Agreement
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Chapter 19 "I'd Like to Own That Painting": Lang, Cézanne, and the Art of Omission -- The Passion of the Clerk Who Would Be an Artist -- A Story of Mirroring and Multiplying Clerks -- The Vibration of Appearances is the Cradle of Things -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 20 Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat -- A Man's Castle -- Queer Ladders -- Bannion's Descent and Dislocation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 21 Metropolis and the Figuration of Eidos -- The Destruction and Restoration of Metropolis -- Kunstwollen and Total Cinema -- Lang's Figuration: Geometry and Eidos -- The Reinvention of the Image -- The Fascination of the Gaze -- Mise-en-Scène and Symbolic Space -- The Imaginary -- The Dimension of Secrecy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part Four Rediscoveries and Returns -- Chapter 22 Not the End: Fritz Lang's War -- Eyes on Hitler -- Eyes off Heydrich -- Non-Collaboration -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 23 Classic(al) Lang: Conflicting Impulses in Ministry of Fear -- Control and Agency -- Propaganda vs. Narrative Pleasure -- The Name of the Beast -- Mood and Tone -- Noise vs. Silence -- The Occult vs. Science and Technology -- Lang vs. Classical Hollywood Cinema -- A Clock Goes Amok -- A Man Under the Influence: Ministry of Fear as a Realist Fantasy? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 24 Multiple Reflections: The Woman in the Mirror in Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger -- Works Cited -- Chapter 25 Suspended Modernity: On the Last Five Films of Fritz Lang -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 26 The Limit:House by the River -- Thresholds -- Hallucinations, Echoes, Returns -- Mysteries of Decoupage -- The Sound that Unsettles -- Ghosts -- Perversity and Point of View -- Vampirism -- Taste -- Works Cited -- Chapter 27 Looking for a Path: Fritz Lang and Clash by Night -- Bending -- Abstracting
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The Crisis of Historicism -- Time and Narrative -- The Work of Mourning -- New Worldviews -- Perpetual Strangers -- Metaphysics of Finitude -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10 Lang contra Wagner: Die Nibelungen as Anti-Adaptation -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 Redemption of Revenge: Die Nibelungen -- The Queen of the Night -- Cinema and the Politics of Temporality -- Ambivalence of Vengeance -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12 Furious Union: Fritz Lang and the American West -- "A Return to Karl May" -- Outfoxed? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13 "It Was a Horserace Sorta": Fortunes of Rancho Notorious -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part Three Matters of Form -- Chapter 14 Beyond Destiny and Design: Camera Movement in Fritz Lang's German Films -- Object Lessons -- Patterns and Perspectives -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15 Fritz Lang: Object and Thing in the German Films -- The Avant-Garde -- Expressionism -- the New Objectivity -- Object and Hand -- Indexicality and the Object -- Pattern and Abstraction -- Art Objects -- Writing, Image, and the Thing -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 16 A Stranger in the House: Fritz Lang's Fury and the Cinema of Exile -- The Foreigner's Gaze -- Dangers of Displacement -- America on Trial -- Rewriting Weimar -- Imagined Alliances -- The Insider as Outsider -- Film as Witness -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Fritz Lang's Modern Character: You Only Live Once and the Depth of Surface -- On "Pure Negativity" -- Picturing Henry Fonda -- The End of the Line -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 18 Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the Frame of Performance -- A Shift in Persona -- The Woman in the Window -- Scarlet Street -- Secret Beyond the Door -- Works Cited
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Print version McElhaney, Joe A Companion to Fritz Lang Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2015 ISBN 9780470670972
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