A companion to Fritz Lang / edited by Joe McElhaney ; contributors, Nicholas Baer [and twenty eight others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McElhaney, Joe, 1957- editor.

Baer, Nicholas, 1985- contributor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976--Criticism and interpretation.

Lang, Fritz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1446 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 authors. 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 ChrisFujiwara, 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

Contents:

Introduction / Joe McElhaney

Act one: looking, power, interpretation. Raymond Bellour: Why Lang could become preferable to Hitchcock

Frances Guerin: While not looking: the failure to see and know in Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler and The testament of Dr. Mabuse

Nicole Brenez: Symptom, exhibition, fear: representations of terror in the German work of Fritz Lang

Paul Dobryden: Spies: post-war paranoia goes to the movies

Olga Solovieva: Identifying the suspect: Lang's M and the trajectories of film criticism

David Phelps: The medium's re-vision (or the doctor as disease, diagnostic, and cure)

Act two: myths, legends and tragic visions. Nicholas Baer: Metaphysics of finitude: Der Müde Tod and the crisis of historicism

Chris Fujiwara: Beyond a reasonable doubt and The caesura

Thomas Leitch: Lang contra Wagner: Die Nibelungen as anti-adaptation

Steve Choe: Redemption of revenge: Die Nibelungen

Phil Wagner: Furious union: Fritz Lang and the American West

Tom Conley: It was a horserace sorta: fortunes of rancho notorious

Act three: matters of form. Daniel Morgan: Beyond destiny and design: camera movement in Fritz Lang's German films

Brigitte Peucker: Fritz Lang: object and thing in the German films

Anton Kaes: A stranger in the house: Fritz Lang's fury and the cinema of exile

Will Scheibel: Fritz Lang's modern character: You only live once and The depth of surface

Steven Rybin: Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the frame of performance

Vinzenz Hediger: I'd like to own that painting: Lang, Cezanne and the art of omission

Pamela Robertson Wojcik: Tumbling blocks and queer ladders: notions of home in The big heat

Paolo Bertetto: Metropolis and the figuration of Eidos

Act four: rediscoveries and returns. Lutz Koepnick: Not the end: Fritz Lang's war

Jakob Isak Nielsen: Classic(al) Lang: conflicting impulses in Ministry of fear

Doug Dibbern: Multiple reflections: The woman in the mirror in Fritz Lang's Cloak and dagger

Carlos Iosilla: Suspended modernity: on the last five films of Fritz Lang

Adrian Martin: The limit: House by the river

Joe McElhaney: Looking for a path: Fritz Lang and Clash by night

Sam Ishii-Gonzales: Notes on human desire (Lang, Renoir, Zola)

Tom Gunning and Katharina Lloew: Lunar longings and Rocket fever: rediscovering woman in the moon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119069058

111906905X

9781118602461

1118602463

9781118587232

1118587235

9781118587751

1118587758

9781118587225

1118587227

OCLC:

868150981