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This collection of critical essays offers an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of the prolific and resilient life and vision of one of cinema’s greatest auteurs.

The first edited collection of essays on Fritz Lang’s body of work in over thirty years

A comprehensive assessment of one of cinema’s most influential figures

Brings together key scholars, including Tom Gunning and Chris Fujiwara, to share their latest insights

Features translated contributions from writers rarely rendered in English such as Nicole Brenez and Paolo Berletto

Offers multinational and multi-perspectival analysis of Lang’s oeuvre, including all his key films

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).

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Joe McElhaney
Act One: Looking, Power, Interpretation
2. Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock
Raymond Bellour
3. While Not Looking: The Failure to See and Know in Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Frances Guerin
4. Symptom, Exhibition, Fear: Representations of Terror in the German Work of Fritz Lang
Nicole Brenez
5. Spies: Post-War Paranoia Goes to the Movies
Paul Dobryden
6. Identifying the Suspect: Lang’s M and the Trajectories of Film Criticism
Olga Solovieva
7. The Medium’s Re-Vision (Or the Doctor as Disease, Diagnostic, and Cure)
David Phelps
Act Two: Myths, Legends and Tragic Visions
8. Metaphysics of Finitude: Der müde tod and the Crisis of Historicism
Nicholas Baer
9. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura
Chris Fujiwara
10. Lang contra Wagner: Die Nibelungen as Anti-Adaptation
Thomas Leitch
11. Redemption of Revenge: Die Nibelungen
Steve Choe
12. Furious Union: Fritz Lang and the American West
Phil Wagner
13. It Was a Horserace Sorta: Fortunes of Rancho Notorious
Tom Conley
Act Three: Matters of Form
14. Beyond Destiny and Design: Camera Movement in Fritz Lang’s German Films
Daniel Morgan
15. Fritz Lang: Object and Thing in the German Films
Brigitte Peucker
16. A Stranger in the House: Fritz Lang’s Fury and the Cinema of Exile
Anton Kaes
17. Fritz Lang’s Modern Character: You Only Live Once and the Depth of Surface
Will Scheibel
18. Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the Frame of Performance
Steven Rybin
19. I’d Like to Own That Painting: Lang, Cezanne and the Art of Omission
Vinzenz Hediger
20. Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat
Pamela Robertson Wojcik
21. Metropolis and the Figuration of Eidos
Paolo Bertetto
Act Four: Rediscoveries and Returns
22. Not the End: Fritz Lang’s War
Lutz Koepnick
23. Classic(al)Lang: Conflicting Impulses in Ministry of Fear
Jakob Isak Nielsen
24. Multiple Reflections: The Woman in the Mirror in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger
Doug Dibbern
25. Suspended Modernity: On the Last Five Films of Fritz Lang
Carlos Losilla
26. The Limit: House by the River
Adrian Martin
27. Looking for a Path: Fritz Lang and Clash by Night
Joe McElhaney
28. Notes on Human Desire (Lang, Renoir, Zola)
Sam Ishii-Gonzales
29. Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering Woman in the Moon
Tom Gunning and Katharina Loew
Index
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