A Companion to Fritz Lang

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

Joe McElhaney 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, Prof McElhaney is author of The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli (2006), Albert Maysles (2009), and editor of Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment (2009).

Review request 5/6/2013 - Katinka Klaas - MEDIEN wissenschaft US reviews: Cineaste Film Comment Canadian Journal of Film Studies Cineaction Film Quarterly Quarterly Review of Film and Video Literature/Film Quarterly Velvet Light Trap Bright Lights Film Journal Cinemascope UK reviews: Sight and Sound Screening the Past Senses of Cinema Quarterly Review of Film Studies Screen Positif Cahiers du Cinema Framework Filmkrant Film International

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Review request 5/6/2013 - Katinka Klaas - MEDIEN wissenschaft
 
USA & Canada:
* Choice (sent automatically; do not re-order)
* Cineaste
* Film Comment
* Canadian Journal of Film Studies
* Cineaction
* Film Quarterly
* Quarterly Review of Film and Video
* Literature/Film Quarterly
* Bright Lights Film Journal
* Cinema Scope (contact details?)
 
UK & RoW:
* Sight and Sound
* Senses of Cinema (Daniel Fairfax, Book Reviews)
* Screen
* Positif
* Cahiers du Cinèma
* Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
* Film International