A companion to Fritz Lang / edited by Joe McElhaney.
| Other author | McElhaney, Joe, 1957- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Companion to Fritz Lang Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2014 9780470670972 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014025048 |
| ISBN | 9781118587232 (ePub) |
| ISBN | 9781118587225 (Adobe PDF) |
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