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A Companion to Fritz Lang.
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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Somerset :
Wiley,
2014.
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| Colección: | Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors; Title page; Copyright page; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part One: Looking, Power, Interpretation; Part Two: Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions; Part Three: Matters of Form; Part Four: Rediscoveries and Returns; Works Cited; Part One: Looking, Power, Interpretation; 2 Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock; Works Cited; 3 While Not Looking; 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; Works Cited; Further Reading; 4 Symptom, Exhibition, Fear; 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; Works Cited; 5 Spies; Enemies on All Sides; Intrigue in the Industry; Mass Cultural Invasion; Conclusion: Spies' Cold War; Works Cited; 6 Identifying the Suspect; Works Cited; 7 The Medium's Re-Vision; Dispelled Spells; The State of Hysteria; A Medium is the Message.
- The Resurrected VisionThe Secret of the Open Door; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Part Two: Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions; 8 Metaphysics of Finitude; The Crisis of Historicism; Time and Narrative; The Work of Mourning; New Worldviews; Perpetual Strangers; Metaphysics of Finitude; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; 9 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura; Works Cited; 10 Lang contra Wagner; Works Cited; 11 Redemption of Revenge; The Queen of the Night; Cinema and the Politics of Temporality; Ambivalence of Vengeance; Works Cited; 12 Furious Union; "A Return to Karl May"; Outfoxed?
- Works Cited13 "It Was a Horserace Sorta"; Works Cited; Part Three: Matters of Form; 14 Beyond Destiny and Design; Object Lessons; Patterns and Perspectives; Works Cited; 15 Fritz Lang; The Avant-Garde; Expressionism; the New Objectivity; Object and Hand; Indexicality and the Object; Pattern and Abstraction; Art Objects; Writing, Image, and the Thing; Works Cited; 16 A Stranger in the House; The Foreigner's Gaze; Dangers of Displacement; America on Trial; Rewriting Weimar; Imagined Alliances; The Insider as Outsider; Acknowledgments; 17 Fritz Lang's Modern Character; On "Pure Negativity."
- Picturing Henry FondaThe End of the Line; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; 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; 19 "I'd Like to Own That Painting"; 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; Works Cited; 20 Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders; A Man's Castle; Queer Ladders; Bannion's Descent and Dislocation; Works Cited; 21 Metropolis and the Figuration of Eidos.