{"product_id":"a-companion-to-fritz-lang-isbn-9780470670972","title":"A Companion to Fritz Lang","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Companion to Fritz Lang\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Fritz Lang’s movie-making spans a major part of the history of cinema, across genres, styles, and national contexts. With smartness and sharpness, the essays in this essential volume come from many angles to capture the richness of Lang’s cinema and bring great insight to its study.”\u003cbr\u003eDana Polan, Cinema Studies, NYU  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Fritz Lang’s influence on cinema cannot be overstated, with a career that stretched from the silent era in Germany to the decline of the Hollywood studio system in the late 1950s, from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, from Depression America to the McCarthy era. One of the best known émigrés from Germany’s school of Expressionism, Lang is also credited with influencing the emergence of film noir.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Fritz Lang\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first full-scale collection of scholarship available in English on one of the most important filmmakers of all time. Addressing much of Lang’s voluminous body of work, from \u003ci\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eM\u003c\/i\u003e, to lesser-known titles such as \u003ci\u003eWestern Union\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClash by Night\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume offers a superb overview of Lang’s cinema with revealing insights into his enduring influence on directors such as Godard, Scorsese, Chabrol, and Tarantino. The two dozen essays presented here are an unrivaled and up-to-the-minute assessment of the prolific and resilient life and vision of one of cinema’s greatest auteurs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe McElhaney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One Looking, Power, Interpretation 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaymond Bellour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 While Not Looking: The Failure to See and Know in Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrances Guerin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Symptom, Exhibition, Fear: Representations of Terror in the German Work of Fritz Lang 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicole Brenez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Spies: Postwar Paranoia Goes to the Movies 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Dobryden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Identifying the Suspect: Lang’s M and the Trajectories of Film Criticism 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlga Solovieva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Medium’s Re-Vision: (Or the Doctor as Disease, Diagnostic, and Cure) 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Phelps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Metaphysics of Finitude: Der müde Tod and the Crisis of Historicism 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas Baer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura 161\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Fujiwara\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Lang contra Wagner: Die Nibelungen as Anti-Adaptation 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Leitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Redemption of Revenge: Die Nibelungen 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Choe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Furious Union: Fritz Lang and the American West 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhil Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “It Was a Horserace Sorta”: Fortunes of Rancho Notorious 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Conley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three Matters of Form 257\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Beyond Destiny and Design: Camera Movement in Fritz Lang’s German Films 259\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Fritz Lang: Object and Thing in the German Films 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrigitte Peucker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 A Stranger in the House: Fritz Lang’s Fury and the Cinema of Exile 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnton Kaes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Fritz Lang’s Modern Character: You Only Live Once and the Depth of Surface 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWill Scheibel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the Frame of Performance 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven Rybin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 “I’d Like to Own That Painting”: Lang, Cézanne, and the Art of Omission 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVinzenz Hediger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat 371\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePamela Robertson Wojcik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Metropolis and the Figuration of Eidos 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaolo Bertetto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four Rediscoveries and Returns 413\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Not the End: Fritz Lang’s War 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLutz Koepnick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Classic(al) Lang: Conflicting Impulses in Ministry of Fear 430\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJakob Isak Nielsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Multiple Reflections: The Woman in the Mirror in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoug Dibbern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Suspended Modernity: On the Last Five Films of Fritz Lang 474\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlos Losilla\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Limit: House by the River 494\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdrian Martin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Looking for a Path: Fritz Lang and Clash by Night 514\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe McElhaney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Notes on Human Desire (Lang, Renoir, Zola) 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSam Ishii-Gonzales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering Woman in the Moon 554\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Gunning and Katharina Loew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 587\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe McElhaney\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA, as well as in the Theater Program at CUNY’s Graduate Center. A seasoned commentator on film, media, and the arts, Professor McElhaney is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eAlbert Maysles\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and editor of \u003ci\u003eVincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e“From silent cinema to the sound film, from early film to new waves in art cinema, from Weimar to emigré Paris to Hollywood, and across genres from the Western to the adventure story to the epic to the spy tale to film noir, Fritz Lang's movie-making spans a major part of the history of cinema.  With smartness and sharpness, the essays in this essential volume come from many angles to capture the richness of Lang's cinema and bring great insight to its study.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDana Polan, Cinema Studies, NYU\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988607221989,"sku":"NP9780470670972","price":225.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470670972.jpg?v=1761780951","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-fritz-lang-isbn-9780470670972","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}