Films of Fritz Lang Allegories of Vision and Modernity

Name: Films of Fritz Lang Allegories of Vision and Modernity
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ISBN: 9780851707433

ISBN-10: 0851707432

ISBN-13: 9780851707433

Edition: 2000

Authors: Tom Gunning

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In this remarkable new study, the renowned historian and theorist of early cinema turns his attention to the work of Fritz Lang, proposing new readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. Gunning examines the films not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lange's mastery of cinematic set design, composition, and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative that can be compared to that of Alfred Hitchcock or Jean Renoir, but a view of modernity that relates strongly to the ideas of Adorno,…

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List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 3/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.19" wide x 9.42" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Tom Gunning is professor in the Department of Art History and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Standing Outside the Films - Emblems



Reading the Text of Death - Lang's Silent Allegories: Der Mude Tod (1921), Die Nibelungen (1924), Metropolis (1927)



The Marchen: Der Mude Tod - Death and the Maiden



The Decay of Myth: Siegfried's Death, Kriemhild's Revenge



Metropolis: The Dance of Death



The Mastery of Crime - Lang's Urban Thrillers: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Spies (1928), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932)



Mabuse, Grand Enunciator: Control and Co-ordination



Haghi



The Testament of Dr. Mabuse



Hinge - M (1931)



M: The City Haunted by Demonic Desire



Fritz Lang's America - The Social Trilogy: Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), You and Me (1938)



You Ought to Be in Pictures: Liliom and Fury



You Only Live Once



You and Me



Framing Desire: The Woman in the Window (1944), Scarlet Street (1945), The Secret Beyond the Door (1948), House by the River (1950)



The Woman in the Window: Cycles of Desire



Scarlet Street: Life Is a Nightmare



Secret Beyond the Door. Broken Frames and Piercing Gazes



Coda: House by the River



The 50s Exposes and Lang's Last Testament: The Blue Gardenia (1953), The Big Heat (1953), While the City Sleeps (1955), Beyond a Reasonable doubt (1956), The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)



The Blue Gardenia



The Big Heat



While the city Sleeps/Beyond a Reasonable Doubt



The Circle Closes on the Last Mabuse


Notes


Bibliography


Index