The films of Fritz Lang : allegories of vision and modernity

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The films of Fritz Lang : allegories of vision and modernity

Tom Gunning

British Film Institute, 2000

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"A BFI book published by Palgrave Macmillan"--T.p. of later printing

Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-517) and index

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内容説明

This study examines the early work of Fritz Lang, proposing readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. It emphasizes Lang's reflection on modernity, and hones in on the problem of identity and subjectivity in a progressively more automated, impersonal world.

目次

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Standing Outside the Films - Emblems The Inscribed/Imprinting Hand The Screening Room: 'Strange but True' The Interview and the Clock I. Reading the Text of Death - Lang's Silent Allegories: Der mude Tod (1921), Die Nibelungen (1924), Metropolis (1927) 1. The Marchen: Der mude Tod - Death and the Maiden Who Tells the Timely Story of Death? The Allegory of the Maiden: Reading and Desire Final Figure: The Look at the Camera 2. The Decay of Myth: Siegfried's Death, Kriemhild 's Revenge 3. Metropolis: The Dance of Death The Allegory of the Machine The Universal Language of Silent Film Demons of Energy: Who Rules the City of Metropolis? Gothic Modernism: Technology as Modern Magic Oedipal Nightmares, Allegorical Riddles Apocalypse without End, Endings without Conviction Burn Witch Burn II: The Mastery of Crime - Lang's Urban Thrillers: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler ( 1922), Spies ( 1928), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932) 4. Mabuse, Grand Enunciator: Control and Co-ordination The Sensation-film and the Spaces of Modernity The Terrain of Modernity: Space, Time and the Mastery of Communication The Mechanical Production of Counterfeit Identity The Grand Enunciator and the Power of the Gaze Playing with Time 5. Haghi The Evil Genius/Mauvais genie The Staging of Desire Building Identity from Fragments Finale: Bringing Down the House 6. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse A Message, Condemned to Death, Has Escaped 'Pay No Attention to that Man behind the Curtain' The Same Old Song, but with a Different Meaning (Since You've Been Gone) III: Hinge - M (1931) 7. M: The City Haunted by Demonic Desire 'Oh Mother I Am Lost!' The Murder of Elsie Beckmann Formed in Fright: The Topography of Terror Der Schwarze Mann The People vs Hans Beckert IV: Fritz Lang's America - The Social Trilogy: Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), You and Me (1938) 8. You Ought to Be in Pictures: Liliom and Fury The Flight of the Refugee Meet John Doe: Lang Arrives in America A Whole Town of John Does: The Lynching of Joe Wilson 'You Can Have the Strand in Your Own Town': Joe Wilson's Private Theatre 9. You Only Live Once The Paradoxes of Vision Identities Assembled and Expunged in a Carceral Society The Re-educating of Joan Graham Taylor 10. You and Me A 'Cinematic Hash': Experimental Cross-breeding among the Hollywood Genres You Can Not Get Something for Nothing V: Framing Desire: The Woman in the Window (1944), Scarlet Street (1945), The Secret Beyond the Door (1948), House by the River (1950) 11. The Woman in the Window: Cycles of Desire Prelude to Nightmare: Shop Window Sweetheart The Paranoid World Made of Glass Eternal Return 12. Scarlet Street: Life Is a Nightmare Mirror Images The Fourteen-Carat, Seventeen-Jewel Cashier The Artist's Signature and the Mourning Play of the Melancholy Baby No Perspective: The Cancelling Out of Chris Cross 13. Secret Beyond the Door: Broken Frames and Piercing Gazes Pastiche and Palimpsest Speaking and Seeing: A Woman's View and Voice Unlocking Bluebeard's Seventh Room Architecture of Doom 14. Coda: House by the River Effacing the Traces and Writing the Abject The Flow of the Writer's Hand VI: 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) 15. The Blue Gardenia Contradictions of a Decade Off the Hook Booking Cinderella 16. The Big Heat Circuits of Corruption The Construction of Authority Rogue Cop The Big Heat Falls Alike on the Just and the Unjust 17. While the City Sleeps/Beyond a Reasonable Doubt The News is Made at Night Television, Person to Person Inside Out 18. The Circle Closes on the Last Mabuse Return to the Scene of the Crime Recycled Vision, Feigned Blindness, Total Exposure The Slte of Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modernity The Death of Cinema, Cinema and Death Notes Bibliography Index

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