By Thomas Elsaesser
Illustrated city (1925) is a huge paintings. whilst it was once made it used to be Germany's most costly characteristic movie, a canvas for director Fritz Lang's more and more extravagant pursuits (it took 16 months to film). Lang, encouraged through the skyline of recent York, created a complete new imaginative and prescient of towns. one of many maximum works of technological know-how fiction, the movie additionally tells human tales approximately love and family members. during this publication, Thomas Elsaesser explores the cultural phenomenon of city: its diversified models (there is not any definitive one), its altering meanings, its function as a storehouse or database of the twentieth century.
non-searchable PDF (made from a photocopied book).
Read or Download Metropolis (BFI Film Classics) PDF
Similar film books
In leisure Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the modern horror movie produces leisure terror as a fulfilling come upon with violence and threat for woman spectators. She demanding situations the normal knowledge that violent horror movies can in simple terms degrade ladies and incite violence, and contends as a substitute that the modern horror movie speaks to the cultural have to convey rage and terror in the course of social upheaval.
The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography (Revised and Updated Edition)
Overview
Writer, director, actor, slapstick comedian. Woody Allen stands as one among our era’s so much celebrated artists. beginning within the Fifties, Allen started crafting a larger-than-life neurotic character that has for the reason that entertained and enlightened thousands. In his motion pictures, greatly considered autobiographical explorations of his personal comedian fears and fixations, Allen rigorously managed the public’s view of him as a lovely scamp. yet that every one got here crashing down the day Mia Farrow came upon a Polaroid on her mantle. What was once a flurry of sensational headlines and felony battles. His courting with Soon-Yi Previn, thirty-four years his junior and the step-daughter of his longtime female friend, prompted shockwaves within the public’s belief of the director, but few biographers and reporters have explored what occurred and why.
In this, the 1st deep research of Allen’s existence and the occasions surrounding his break up with Farrow, biographer Marion Meade tracks down dozens of associates, actors, buddies, and picture historians. They open up with insights and information infrequent on the earth of wealth and superstar. What effects is an interesting portrait of a wrong genius, as adept at developing his personal picture as he's at crafting movies. Rereleased and up-to-date, this can be an unauthorized biography that neither Woody Allen’s lovers nor his detractors may be capable of positioned down. The revised and up-to-date variation was once reviewed within the Wall highway magazine in 2013 by means of Carl Rollyson, in a roundup of the 5 top Hollywood biographies.
“B” Movies: An Informal Survey of the American Low-Budget Film 1933–1945
An unduly vague background of the minor studios, B movies gathers jointly histories of such factories as Monogram and PRC. The ebook used to be solid from an essay that seemed in specialise in movie, and the booklet was once intended to join a sequence less than the overall editorship of Leonard Maltin. It's uncertain what number if any of the proposed titles have been released.
Those volumes learn an important yet formerly ignored second in French cultural historical past: the emergence of French movie conception and feedback prior to the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six approximately symmetrical sessions that serve to "bite into" the discursive move of early French writing at the cinema.
- Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier
- Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict
- Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design
- Six contes moraux
- Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema
Additional info for Metropolis (BFI Film Classics)
Sample text
Yet ultimately, it is the low-budget The Honeymoon Killers, a black-and-white independent American film clearly ahead of its time which shocks the most. Starring the unlikely pairing of stolid Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco as the real-life “Lonely Hearts Killers” Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez, whose murder spree is propelled by an amour fou that both Luis Buñuel and François Truffaut would be proud of, The Honeymoon Killers, written and directed by Leonard Kastle, impresses with its casual depiction of the sordid everyday.
Many of these films were William Castle Productions or for American International. Even more of them featured some special gimmick, such as the thousand-dollar life-insurance policy from Lloyds of London that the theatre patrons of Macabre would receive in case any of them should die of fright; or the free burial services offered to expired patrons of The Screaming Skull; or “PsychoRama,” the gimmick used in Terror in the Haunted House, in which subliminal pictures were used to psychologically affect the audience; or “Emergo” in House on Haunted Hill, where a wired skeleton would “float” over the heads of the audience; or “Percepto,” in The Tingler, where vibrating motors were attached to the underside of selected theatre seats, which at the proper moments inflicted tingling sensations to a delicate portion of the theatergoer’s anatomy; or “Hypnomagic,” in The Hypnotic Eye, in which one of the onscreen actors tries to hypnotize the audience; or “Illusion-O,” in 13 Ghosts, in which special glasses allow the ghosts to become visible to the audience; or the “Fright Break” in Homicidal, where the narrative stopped for 45 seconds near the end and allowed any terrified moviegoers to get their money back if they would humiliate themselves by walking in a yellow light to the yellow “Coward’s Corner” that had been set aside in the theatre.
Before Charlotte can leave the house of her father, she must go through the experience of reenacting the crime in the dream sequence and “shooting” Dr. Drew Bayliss, played by Joseph Cotten. Yet the difference in attitude between Marnie and the Aldrich films shows why Marnie is not a horror film: Marnie is really guilty of the past crime and is cured while she is relatively young. Baby Jane and Charlotte are not guilty, and they are not cured of their madness until their whole lives have been wasted and it is too late.