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 mude 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, Cezanne, 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