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A Companion to Fritz Lang offers the first full-scale collection of scholarship available in English on one of the most important filmmakers of all time. Over two dozen essays add up to an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of Fritz Lang s prolific and resilient life and vision.

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Table of Contents

Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiv

1 Introduction 1
Joe McElhaney

Part One Looking, Power, Interpretation 31

2 Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock 33
Raymond Bellour

3 While Not Looking: The Failure to See and Know in Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 43
Frances Guerin

4 Symptom, Exhibition, Fear: Representations of Terror in the German Work of Fritz Lang 63
Nicole Brenez

5 Spies: Postwar Paranoia Goes to the Movies 76
Paul Dobryden

6 Identifying the Suspect: Lang’s M and the Trajectories of Film Criticism 94
Olga Solovieva

7 The Medium’s Re-Vision: (Or the Doctor as Disease, Diagnostic, and Cure) 114
David Phelps

Part Two Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions 139

8 Metaphysics of Finitude: Der müde Tod and the Crisis of Historicism 141
Nicholas Baer

9 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura 161
Chris Fujiwara

10 Lang contra Wagner: Die Nibelungen as Anti-Adaptation 176
Thomas Leitch

11 Redemption of Revenge: Die Nibelungen 195
Steve Choe

12 Furious Union: Fritz Lang and the American West 219
Phil Wagner

13 “It Was a Horserace Sorta”: Fortunes of Rancho Notorious 242
Tom Conley

Part Three Matters of Form 257

14 Beyond Destiny and Design: Camera Movement in Fritz Lang’s German Films 259
Daniel Morgan

15 Fritz Lang: Object and Thing in the German Films 279
Brigitte Peucker

16 A Stranger in the House: Fritz Lang’s Fury and the Cinema of Exile 300
Anton Kaes

17 Fritz Lang’s Modern Character: You Only Live Once and the Depth of Surface 322
Will Scheibel

18 Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the Frame of Performance 340
Steven Rybin

19 “I’d Like to Own That Painting”: Lang, Cézanne, and the Art of Omission 358
Vinzenz Hediger

20 Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat 371
Pamela Robertson Wojcik

21 Metropolis and the Figuration of Eidos 392
Paolo Bertetto

Part Four Rediscoveries and Returns 413

22 Not the End: Fritz Lang’s War 415
Lutz Koepnick

23 Classic(al) Lang: Conflicting Impulses in Ministry of Fear 430
Jakob Isak Nielsen

24 Multiple Reflections: The Woman in the Mirror in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger 458
Doug Dibbern

25 Suspended Modernity: On the Last Five Films of Fritz Lang 474
Carlos Losilla

26 The Limit: House by the River 494
Adrian Martin

27 Looking for a Path: Fritz Lang and Clash by Night 514
Joe McElhaney

28 Notes on Human Desire (Lang, Renoir, Zola) 536
Sam Ishii-Gonzales

29 Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering Woman in the Moon 554
Tom Gunning and Katharina Loew

Index 587

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/01/2015
      ISBN13: 9780470670972, 978-0470670972
      ISBN10: 0470670975

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A Companion to Fritz Lang offers the first full-scale collection of scholarship available in English on one of the most important filmmakers of all time. Over two dozen essays add up to an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of Fritz Lang s prolific and resilient life and vision.

      Trade Review
      Review copy sent on 12.10.15 to German Quarterly Book Reviews Review copy sent on 09.02.15 to FILMBLATT Review copy sent on 24.12.14 to 25fps Review copy sent on 19.12.14 to The Evening Class Review request 5/6/2013 - Katinka Klaas - MEDIEN wissenschaft USA & Canada: * Choice (sent automatically; do not re-order) * Cineaste - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309938 * Film Comment - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309937 * Canadian Journal of Film Studies - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309940 * Cineaction - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309940 * Film Quarterly - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309939 *Quarterly Review of Film and Video - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309940 * Literature/Film Quarterly - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309940 * Bright Lights Film Journal - Unable to sent as no Tel number * Cinema Scope (contact details?) - Unable to find contact details UK & RoW: * Sight and Sound - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #11472606 *Senses of Cinema (Daniel Fairfax, Book Reviews) - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #11472616 * Screen - - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #11472594 *Positif - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #11472688 *Cahiers du Cinema - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #11472648 *Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309940 * Film International - Review copy sent 20/11/15 #309940

      Table of Contents

      Contributors viii

      Acknowledgments xiv

      1 Introduction 1
      Joe McElhaney

      Part One Looking, Power, Interpretation 31

      2 Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock 33
      Raymond Bellour

      3 While Not Looking: The Failure to See and Know in Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 43
      Frances Guerin

      4 Symptom, Exhibition, Fear: Representations of Terror in the German Work of Fritz Lang 63
      Nicole Brenez

      5 Spies: Postwar Paranoia Goes to the Movies 76
      Paul Dobryden

      6 Identifying the Suspect: Lang’s M and the Trajectories of Film Criticism 94
      Olga Solovieva

      7 The Medium’s Re-Vision: (Or the Doctor as Disease, Diagnostic, and Cure) 114
      David Phelps

      Part Two Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions 139

      8 Metaphysics of Finitude: Der müde Tod and the Crisis of Historicism 141
      Nicholas Baer

      9 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura 161
      Chris Fujiwara

      10 Lang contra Wagner: Die Nibelungen as Anti-Adaptation 176
      Thomas Leitch

      11 Redemption of Revenge: Die Nibelungen 195
      Steve Choe

      12 Furious Union: Fritz Lang and the American West 219
      Phil Wagner

      13 “It Was a Horserace Sorta”: Fortunes of Rancho Notorious 242
      Tom Conley

      Part Three Matters of Form 257

      14 Beyond Destiny and Design: Camera Movement in Fritz Lang’s German Films 259
      Daniel Morgan

      15 Fritz Lang: Object and Thing in the German Films 279
      Brigitte Peucker

      16 A Stranger in the House: Fritz Lang’s Fury and the Cinema of Exile 300
      Anton Kaes

      17 Fritz Lang’s Modern Character: You Only Live Once and the Depth of Surface 322
      Will Scheibel

      18 Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the Frame of Performance 340
      Steven Rybin

      19 “I’d Like to Own That Painting”: Lang, Cézanne, and the Art of Omission 358
      Vinzenz Hediger

      20 Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat 371
      Pamela Robertson Wojcik

      21 Metropolis and the Figuration of Eidos 392
      Paolo Bertetto

      Part Four Rediscoveries and Returns 413

      22 Not the End: Fritz Lang’s War 415
      Lutz Koepnick

      23 Classic(al) Lang: Conflicting Impulses in Ministry of Fear 430
      Jakob Isak Nielsen

      24 Multiple Reflections: The Woman in the Mirror in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger 458
      Doug Dibbern

      25 Suspended Modernity: On the Last Five Films of Fritz Lang 474
      Carlos Losilla

      26 The Limit: House by the River 494
      Adrian Martin

      27 Looking for a Path: Fritz Lang and Clash by Night 514
      Joe McElhaney

      28 Notes on Human Desire (Lang, Renoir, Zola) 536
      Sam Ishii-Gonzales

      29 Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering Woman in the Moon 554
      Tom Gunning and Katharina Loew

      Index 587

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