Mcelhaney - A Companion to Fritz Lang

1. Chapter 07
2. Chapter 08
3. Chapter 11
4. Chapter 12
5. Chapter 13
6. Chapter 17
7. Chapter 20
8. Chapter 23
9. Chapter 27

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Edited by

Joe McElhaney

This edition first published 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Fritz Lang / edited by Joe McElhaney.
pagescm
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-67097-2 (cloth)
1.Lang, Fritz, 18901976Criticism and interpretation.I.McElhaney, Joe, 1957 editor.
PN1998.3.L36C77 2014
791.430233092dc23

2014021669

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Fritz Lang, 1960s. akg-images / Interfoto
Cover design by Nicki Averill Design & Illustration

Nicholas Baer is a PhD candidate in Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. His dissertation focuses on the intersection between film and the philosophy of history in interwar Germany. Baers work was published most recently in Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation (Routledge, 2013), Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2013), the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2013), and the Pordenone Silent Film Festival Catalogue (2012). Together with Anton Kaes and Michael Cowan, he is also currently co-editing a sourcebook of early twentieth-century German film theory for the University of California Press. During the 20132014 academic year, Baer was a DAAD Fellow at the Seminar for Film Studies of the Freie Universitt Berlin.

Raymond Bellour is Director of Research Emeritus at CNRS, Paris. He is interested, on the one hand, in literature both Romantic (the Bronts, Ecrits de jeunesse, 1972; Alexandre Dumas, Mademoiselle Guillotine, 1990) and contemporary (Henri Michaux, 1965; edition of his complete works in La Plade, 3, vol. I, 19982004, Lire Michaux, 2011), and, on the other, by cinema (Le Western, 1966; LAnalyse du film, 1979; Le Corps du cinma: Hypnoses, motions, animalits, 2009). He is also interested in the passages, the mixed states of images painting, photography, cinema, video, virtual images as well as in the relations between words and images (edited collections: LEntre-Images: Photo, cinma, vido, 1990; Jean-Luc Godard: Son+Image, 1992; LEntre-Images 2. Mots, images, 1999; La Querelle des dispositifs: Cinma installations, expositions, 2012; exhibitions: Passages de limage, 1989; States of Images: Instants and Intervals, 2005; Thierry Kuntzel, Lumires du temps, 2006; Thierry KuntzelBill Viola: Deux ternits proches, 2010). In 1991, he and Serge Daney created the cinema review Trafic, with which he continues to be involved.

Paolo Bertetto is Professor of Film Analysis at Sapienza-University of Rome. He also teaches at University of Paris 8. He has been Scientific Head of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin where he coordinated the project of the new museum in the Mole Antonelliana. He has written and edited many books and anthologies. Among his works: