Companion to Fritz Lang

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Over two dozen essays add up to an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of Fritz Lang s prolific and resilient life and vision. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Multipl...

List of contents

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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Product details

• Authors: J McElhaney, Joe McElhaney, Joe (Hunter College Mcelhaney
• Assisted by: Joe McElhaney (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780470670972
• ISBN: 978-0-470-67097-2
• No. of pages: 624
• Series: Companions to Film Directors; WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors; WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Lang, Fritz, Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, Filmtheorie, Film Theory, Film Studies, Filmforschung